How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate

Re:How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate by acdha on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @04:55PM (#34154386)

What moves him into probable deception for me is that he wasn’t just repeatedly wrong about everything of substance but that his errors were always aligned with something which made him money. Botching the methodology on the paper you’re using to argue for removing safeguards is bad but it’s worse not to mention that you were funded by one of the industries affected.

> I wonder if you would consider a hellban to be deplatforming or not.

I would consider it something which didn’t happen to him. Being blocked from trending based on his history of bad advice may not be something you like but it‘s nowhere near deplatforming unless you’re defining that term as meaning that you don’t get free promotion.

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Re:How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate by brigandish on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @02:05AM (#34158337)

> Botching the methodology on the paper you’re using to argue for removing safeguards is bad but it’s worse not to mention that you were funded by one of the industries affected.

You're being too coy. Which industry and which paper? I'm not sure what's preventing you from being more specific, especially since you were lamenting vague examples earlier.

> unless you’re defining that term as meaning that you don’t get free promotion.

So if you can seemingly access a service but not be provided that service then you haven't been deplatformed? That sounds a lot like being given a telephone and a dial tone but you can only call out to prearranged numbers and meanwhile no one can call in nor find out your number and yet the phone company claims they're not denying you service. In other words, preposterous.

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