Re:They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twit...
by root_axis on Sunday August 28, 2022 @05:01PM
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It's not strange. Twitter is a U.S. company, of course it takes a deeper interest in matters of U.S. politics than it does about every other country on the planet.
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Re:They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twit...
by oarabbus_ on Sunday August 28, 2022 @06:21PM
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They said nothing about Twitter's behavior being strange. They said the strange part is people applauding Twitter's content moderation for certain topics, while justifying their inaction on others.
Re:They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twit...
by sangnoir on Sunday August 28, 2022 @07:31PM
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> They said the strange part is people applauding Twitter's content moderation for certain topics, while justifying their inaction on others.
There's nothing strange about that either - Twitter only acts to moderate when it has context and/or gets bad press. It's no surprise that American hot-button issues are the most moderated[1] by Twitter, and less sor for heinous, explicit threats to life in a language spoken by < 1 million speakers halfway around the world, or election misinformation in Kenya. That sort of thing never gets on Twitter's radar, and shouldn't come as a surprise.
1. This is a result of resource constraints, and Twitter's own sense of self-preservation. There is only one jurisdiction that can dissolve Twitter, and is also likely its largest revenue source; naturally, that gets an outsized fraction of Twitter's limited engineer-hours and moderator-hours.