Can you imagine the Department of Justice declaring Twitter to be no longer protected under section 230, after flagging Trump's tweets?
This feels so, so wrong.
This feels so, so wrong.
The provisions of sub-section (1) [the liability shield] shall apply if— ... (b) the intermediary does not— ... (iii) select or modify the information contained in the transmission;
read these posts. india government calls anything critical of its actions on social media as "misuse" because it breaks the image of "worlds largest democracy".
Twitter is being assholes. they should just patch up like facebook which fully complies with government meaning facebook becomes the best monitoring and investigation portal for them. like the last time facebook had found some political influence on their software but once they found the ruling party was involved, they dropped the investigation
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/15/facebook-...
https://scroll.in/article/954711/in-kashmir-a-spree-of-arres...
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...
the narcissist in chief demands his photo be plastered everywhere. anyone against that image is mowed down.
Nah. I like the increased scrutiny against Social Media companies that has come up.
What happens in India is actually the opposite, it's the government requiring the censuring.
I'm always on the side of free speech. It shouldn't be up to Twitter to decide if coronavirus came from the lab, or if "mail in ballot fraud is very rare, as few as 0.001%" (a completely bonkers notion that was also later debunked, but served to prevent any discussion before the election despite it's absurdity).
The key takeaway is, if you are comfortable with Twitter taking such actions with potential ‘misinformation’ then you must also accept that what is considered correct at any point in time is subject to a potential reversal. The staff at Twitter is just as fallible as the rest of us.
It seems far more reasonable to me that if POTUS or $randomCelebrity tweets something it will get more scrutiny from the moderation efforts at Twitter than I would if I tweeted the same thing.