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Re:Twitter API hacked, user database being sold online by lhnz on Sunday December 25, 2022 @09:55AM (#34127718)
The context and text within the emails doesn't match what you just wrote and from what I've seen there were 1000s of deletions -- not only of Hunter Biden's penis as you imply...

It makes zero sense to me that this email (https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701482308669440?s=46&...) would have anything to do with Hunter Biden's penis. The Twitter employee is clearly talking about feeling unable to not act on a pro-russian tweet even though they hadn't been able to support any action on it using Twitter's own policies.

The point is, the US government partially infiltrated Twitter, and then applied regular external pressure on it to applying badly defined policies against their targets.

Re:Twitter API hacked, user database being sold online by astrange on Sunday December 25, 2022 @10:02AM (#34127781)
Btw, I endorse all US influence operations run on any websites and think all of them are awesome. America #1, after all.

If you want Twitter to be upset about that one, you may have to get them to move to some non-aligned country. Maybe there’s some kind of Yandex Twitter? In the meantime, it’s probably against TOS insofar as it’s a spambot, but state media like VOA seem okay.

Re:Twitter API hacked, user database being sold online by lhnz on Sunday December 25, 2022 @10:23AM (#34127969)
Well, how soon will it be until non-US aligned social media like TikTok is banned in the US anyway? The popular alternatives that you speak of may end up banned.

Also I don't understand why non-US citizens should be allowed to have their speech rights crushed by the US government. Many of these people live in the US and should be free to speak -- they shouldn't be censored by the US government wearing a glove ("US Tech Organisations") but effectively calling the shots.

Re:Twitter API hacked, user database being sold online by astrange on Sunday December 25, 2022 @10:46AM (#34128166)
If TikTok was banned that’d be disappointing. I don’t expect it to be; the plan where Oracle bought it was better. It is a problem that China influences it.

I don’t think the EU is capable of making a popular social media site either unfortunately. They don’t have the culture.

Twitter does have blatant Chinese propaganda up, like their wolf warrior diplomats and Chen Weihua, which is another good sign for what they’re allowing elsewhere. Maybe that’s just because Chen is so incompetent it’s funny to let him post…

Re:Twitter API hacked, user database being sold online by seanmcdirmid on Sunday December 25, 2022 @10:50AM (#34128197)
> Twitter does have blatant Chinese propaganda up

Isn’t Twitter blocked in China? Do wolf warriors not see any hypocrisy in using it?

Re:Twitter API hacked, user database being sold online by astrange on Monday December 26, 2022 @02:44AM (#34135626)
Why would they do that? It’s normal for Chinese export and domestic businesses to be completely different too - you can get all the Winnie the Pooh merch you want made there.

Not being hypocritical isn’t even a universal virtue.

Re:Twitter API hacked, user database being sold online by seanmcdirmid on Monday December 26, 2022 @02:31PM (#34140944)
It’s just extolling the virtues and freedoms of China on a platform that is blocked in China doesn’t really make one look sincere.