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Re:Twitter Blocks Linking to Mastodon.social by registeredcorn on Friday June 03, 2022 @11:22AM (#31609540)
I'm not saying your wrong, but that just sounds like an incredible amount of work for something that would presumably be discovered anyway, you know?

Wouldn't it be much easier to simply blacklist and put out some bland statement about "not supporting 'hate speech'" or something? It doesn't matter if it's true or not, it just matters that they paint the picture of them opposing something "bad". Lying just seems a lot easier than going to all of that effort.

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Re:Twitter Blocks Linking to Mastodon.social by can16358p on Friday June 03, 2022 @11:42AM (#31609845)
Maybe I didn't clarify much.

It doesn't require more work than they are already presumably implementing for spam detection (unless I way too much overestimate big tech's abilities), it's a little touch to an already-being-implemented system with a bonus of being able to block competitors to some extent, without direct liability.

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