Twitter deletes China embassy's Xinjiang 'emancipation' tweet

Re:Twitter deletes China embassy's Xinjiang 'emancipation' t... by tsimionescu on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:42PM (#25717151)

If you believe that Justice means something, then there is a difference between Just violence and Unjust violence. Even a single state can produce both Just violence (locking up criminals or criminal instigators) and Unjust violence (extra-judicial killings or forced sterilization).

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Re:Twitter deletes China embassy's Xinjiang 'emancipation' t... by Miner49er on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:44PM (#25717199)

I agree, but by allowing some calls to violence and not others, Twitter is placing itself as a judge of what violence is justifiable and what isn't.

This is basically what politics is - deciding how to fairly apply violence. So Twitter is taking a political stance by only removing some calls. And an especially strong stance if they are going to start judging nation states.

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Re:Twitter deletes China embassy's Xinjiang 'emancipation' t... by tsimionescu on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:56PM (#25717328)

Yes, Twitter is obviously doing that.

Personally, I find that it would be far more fair for Twitter and FB to allow these accounts but to add editorial notes to their tweets/posts explaining that the company believes strongly that these are falsehoods, or something similar. Even the current "This claim about election fraud is disputed" seems somewhat disingenuous to me.

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Re:Twitter deletes China embassy's Xinjiang 'emancipation' t... by Miner49er on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:00PM (#25717387)

Yeah, I would rather Twitter outright ban accounts then just randomly remove tweets.

I do think a label is the best solution, especially for accounts that represent a real person or entitity and aren't anonymous.

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