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You cannot prevent that and it cannot be policed.

Why can't it be prevented? Doesn't seem like they should have much difficulty recognizing that it was a screenshot of a "fleet", but other commenters make it sound like it's too difficult. So I'm wondering what others are taking into account that I'm missing.

How exactly would twitter know if something is screenshotted? The way snapchat does this is check screenshots folder for new files while you are watching the story - to avoid this all you need is an different screenshot app that saves screenshots somewhere else.

Now twitter has multiple apps, multiple platforms including desktop. You'd need some absurd DRM that would be broken anyway to enforce this.

> The way snapchat does this is check screenshots folder for new files

Does this mean that the Snapchat screenshot detection doesn't work if you don't give it the storage permission?

It may be possible to watermark the ux so that at least posting the screenshot could be blocked on their own platform.

I concur about preventing, though T&C's could enable policing. Also a nice (c) notice would enable self-policing upon such infractions to some extent.

But certainly it will not be a fluid process currently. Let's see if they update T&C's to accommodate that aspect.

T&Cs stop at Twitter's border.

Why would they want to police it? Surely Twitter is perfectly fine with you posting screenshots of things of interest (obviously within obscenity and legal restrictions).

Because if users posting screenshots of fleets becomes a common thing, users would be averse to post fleets?

I don't know. Twitter reposts of TikTok videos seems ubiquitous, but it seems like TikTok is still thriving. I don't think the primary reason people post a story rather than a permanent post is that they want to ensure the story only lasts for a day. At least for Instagram, I think it's more about keeping your main feed highly curated while still being able to hammer out tons of stories.

Copyrighting tweets? I love the idea as a demonstration of the absurd extent of copyright, but I'd expect virtually no tweets to be considered copyrightable.

IANAL, but I feel like an original tweet to @bbcmicrobot should be copyrightable. Maybe adding a little © at the end to signal original authorship?

This idea has been looked at - https://copyrightalliance.org/ca_faq_post/tweet-protected-co... Seems that if you posted an original joke it should be copyrightable.

Because the other twitter terms and conditions on harassment are so well policed. That some people are concerned about screenshots instead of bullying, harassment, etc that we see every day on the platform is quite something.

Well, you often find screenshots ARE used for harassment in as stealth retweets that make it hard for the original poster to counter the re-contexting and perversion of what they wrote.

That happens all the time, so yeah - it is a tool used to bully and harass, used all the time upon twitter.

It seems pretty trivial (though perhaps not scalable) to do some kind of image recognition that looks for the Fleet format and flag it for review / policing.

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