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Yeah, these people are just desperately trying to generate outrage over nothing. It’s really really dumb. No need to give them too much thought

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Banning DMs talking about true events seems like something reasonable to be outraged about.

It happened for a few hours when the story was flagged as hacked materials (just like they’d do for, say, someone’s non-consensual nudes). Twitter did that on their own and removed it shortly later after their internal discussion agreed that it wasn’t a violation (they took down the tweets reposting actual nudes, not the media coverage).

Sorry, wasn’t NY Post suspended on Twitter for almost two weeks?

The impact wasn’t just for a few hours and the final acknowledgement of validity of those files came long after the election.

This is textbook gaslighting.0

I was referring specifically to the URL block we were talking about. They used their existing system for hacked material until confirming that it was not appropriate:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/technology/twitter-new-yo...

I feel like the memory of democracy nowadays is exactly 18 hours long.

HN bans any and all DMs. Outraged yet?

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