You are now free to tweet links to the NY Post’s Hunter Biden articles, except that…
…instead of merely blocking links to that story and others Twitter believes are suspect in some way, Twitter will “label Tweets to provide context.”
What will the labels be? Something like “don’t pay attention to this, it’s a lie”? The actual label will be more subtle, of course, but suggesting much the same thing. A more honest label would be “don’t pay attention to this, it disagrees with our politics,” but don’t expect to see that sort of honesty from Twitter, now or ever. And don’t expect them to apply these labels to both sides of the political spectrum with any consistency.
What’s more, Twitter’s previous act of blocking the links has already done the work of guiding readers to (a) ignore the story; and/or (b) if noticed, say it’s bogus. Of course, the left can do the latter all on its own without Twitter’s help. I’ve been to some anti-Trump pro-Democrat websites and they’ve already been hard at work saying the Biden emails are Russian disinformation and that Giuliani, like Trump, is a Russian agent.
Some of these same people fully and utterly believe Russiagate, of course, and their belief is of near-religious intensity. Others are just cynically spreading the lie, knowing that their listeners are ignorant of the truth.
Well I guess this progress of a sort, but still terribly dishonest of Twitter. I suspect they’re afraid they stirred up the Republican hornet’s nest with their earlier attempt to hide the tweet. Getting called to appear before the congress is clearly troubling. I think it’s time for the to lose their protection from libel. They unquestionably edit comment, or at the very least they influence how it appears.
Yeah, Wallace was on Hemmer today, touting WaPo & NYT stuff (from the Deep State), as proof of how compromised Rudy is (by Russians).
Sundance at Treehouse reminds us that FB and Twitter et al are already in trouble for partisan publishing on their presumptively non-partisan platforms.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/10/15/senator-tom-cotton-on-big-tech-censorship-winter-is-coming/
Clever headline.
He seems to think that the Big Techies’ attempts to strike Trump down will only make him stronger.
Earlier story here
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/10/14/bookmark-todays-date-big-tech-has-crossed-the-event-horizon-to-protect-joe-biden/
I didn’t remember that.
The incestuous cross-overs of the Democrats and media are a serious problem and a danger to the Republic, as bad or worse than the revolving door of legislators and lobbyists.
Twitter is angling for a thaw in relations with the Republicans who can derail their business model.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/twitter
To interpret the bolded sections:
“we didn’t intend to get nailed on this so quickly”
“if we block their whistleblowers, Congress might take action when we don’t block ours”
“however, if the doxxing takes out one of you evil deplorables, we probably won’t block it”
..but this is just bizarre.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/twitter-newyorkpost-censorship-biden/2020/10/16/id/992422/
“While Twitter said it won’t censor tweets in the future that contain the story anymore, it is still requiring the Post to delete the old tweets because they violated the company’s policies at the time.”
Speaking of censoring stories and cancelling people who don’t stick with the narrative, this has been an interesting side-bar.
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/ice-cube-says-cnn-cancelled-his-interview-chris-cuomo-because-they-cant
The point he made is similar to the one Trump expressed in 2016 about his donations to Democrats in New York and elsewhere – you have to deal with the people who have the power over your businesses; you don’t have to agree with their ideology or like them.
The story also contains a good video clip of a black commentator, and references to Kanye West’s views.
I think the black defections from the Democrats are going to be yuge, even if they don’t vote GOP.
The Left — champions of Black Lives that they are — still don’t agree that Black Conservatives Matter.
https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/sat-amamazon-nixes-new-documentary-celebrated-black-author-shelby-steele
The story is long, but worth reading for the optimism of Steele and his film-maker son, who produced the documentary but doesn’t always agree with his dad’s politics.
Twitter, as a platform, depends on users being able to send out information freely.
By harshly punishing anyone who dares to tweet something Twitter seems verboten, Twitter is casting doubt that it can be used as a reliable platform. And doubt is all it takes.
Twitter has apparently decided that the Hunter Biden scandal is worth committing corporate suicide.
Meh.
I don’t really care about them “labeling” stuff. Peeps with an open mind will quickly learn to recognize the value of such things, especially if we continue to call attention to the absurdity and incompetence involved.
For example, The Babylon Bee posted a piece about Hirono demanding ACB be compared to the weight of a duck.
FB actually fact checked it and blocked/obscured it.
Yeah, SERIOUSLY.
First off, it’s the BEE. If you haven’t figured out by now that everything they post is satire, you’re too dumb to do more than wear pants and eat with a fork.
Second, of course, it’s also a Monty Python reference, and if you don’t Get That, other indicators will make it very clear.
If you’re going to take FB seriously, you’re already too brain damaged to ever get a clue.
I don’t care if twitter, et al, “label” shit. As long as they allow people to read it and judge for themselves, if they choose to.
Humans are slaves. I mean, just take a look.
This is why people invite karmic backlash on themselves when banning the Flat Earth theory topic.
It always boomerangs back on you, until you learn your lessons.
Ymarsakar:
In fact, I let you post many many comments about flat earth before I even asked you to stop posting on it so much. Over time, it had became something you posted about extremely often, over and over, and in threads where it had nothing to do with the topic at hand.
In other words, you wrote about flat earth a great deal on this blog, and I allowed it for a long time. And you are free to write about it anywhere else you like – or even here now and then.
It was only after you started writing about it very often that I asked you to stop posting so much about it – in effect, you were spamming the comments section. You can see what I wrote on that about a year ago, here. The following is a cut-and-paste from that comment of mine:
Here’s another comment of mine to you on the subject, from a few months earlier: