Re:Tell HN: Twitter suspends arrested Iranian tech blogger’s...
by danso on Thursday October 06, 2022 @07:04AM
(#33106772)
> Twitter really has one rule for some individuals and another rule for many. There is no justification for any of this from the big tech appeasers.
Huh? Twitter has explicitly justified differential treatment for different kinds of users -- particularly in the name of public interest. Their rules and policies site has a page titled, "About public-interest exceptions on Twitter":
> At present, we limit exceptions to one critical type of public-interest content—Tweets from elected and government officials—given the significant public interest in knowing and being able to discuss their actions and statements.
> As a result, in rare instances, we may choose to leave up a Tweet from an elected or government official that would otherwise be taken down.
Re:Tell HN: Twitter suspends arrested Iranian tech blogger’s...
by luckylion on Thursday October 06, 2022 @11:20AM
(#33109371)
Yeah, vague "we may choose for undisclosed reasons" rules are the best way to say "we'll do whatever we feel like, mostly depending on whether we agree with the tweet".
Huh? Twitter has explicitly justified differential treatment for different kinds of users -- particularly in the name of public interest. Their rules and policies site has a page titled, "About public-interest exceptions on Twitter":
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/public-intere...
> At present, we limit exceptions to one critical type of public-interest content—Tweets from elected and government officials—given the significant public interest in knowing and being able to discuss their actions and statements.
> As a result, in rare instances, we may choose to leave up a Tweet from an elected or government official that would otherwise be taken down.