Where are the “stay home” and “impeach Trump” bots when we need them?
(Serious question: This is a war - albeit a culture war - so where are all the good guys with IT skills and why aren’t they active? Or are they all too busy sharing memes on Redigg?)
I’m not a lawyer, but doesn’t Twitter have some sort of safe harbor protection from liability for things its users post because it doesn’t exercise editorial control over the posts? If so, does ignoring its own rules and letting Trump tweets stand that could arguably be called libel leave them vulnerable to a lawsuit? Would the risk of facing and potentially losing such a suit (thus setting precedent that Twitter is on the hook for whatever its users post) make it no longer cost-effective to give Trump carte blanche on the site?
If only there was someone who was recently potentially libeled on Twitter and had enough money (and maybe a media organization with a legal department behind them) to bring such a suit.
Ya know, you’d be surprised just how many gifs there are out there of people plucking their own eyes out…
Twitter might have been a clown car that fell into a gold mine, but now it’s just upside-down in the tailings dam.
Times like this I wish there was some third party that could force companies to follow their own policies. Maybe they’d change the policy to provide an exception for Trump, but at least then it would have to be on record, in print, in all its humiliating, simpering glory for everyone to see instead of Twitter just pretending it doesn’t exist.
Meanwhile, I’ll just continue never making a Twitter account. And if anyone here is outraged by this, yet still uses Twitter? Shame on you. There are precious few things we can do about the constant injustice we’re being bombarded with from every conceivable facet of society, but refusing to support a corrupt, unjust and completely frivolous company is one of them. If you’re upset about this and yet continuing to support Twitter, a service that nobody actually needs for anything, then maybe you’re really as “deeply upset” as they are “deeply sorry”.
ESPECIALLY IF THE PROBLEM IS ONGOING. I mean, Jesus, talk about a non-response.
Why the hell do people still use twitter? I was sure it was going to myspace a few years ago. Now we have a dementia-laden president using it as a primary communication mechanism? Communicating to a bunch of racist, ignorant, jack-hole idiots. And the media keeps covering it? WTF?
I used to love having political debates with my more conservative leaning friends. Now even they start to cringe when I ask them questions and try to change the subject. NOPE. You don’t get to do that. You voted for this monster, now you get to justify or apologize.
Never joined either one, and find it beyond offensive that they have data-sucking thingies on damn near every website we visit.
Good thing we have you.
I recommend not having horrible friends and family. My emotional health is never impacted by Facebook. In fact so use it a lot for staying in contact both privately and professionally.
I did have to quit Reddit a few years ago, though. Now that really is toxic, even in generally non-horrible subreddits.
Bear with me here, but what if Twitter’s action was one of the less bad of possible response options? There isn’t much they can do one way or another: either stay silent, offer some sort of corrective or warning or apology as they have done (however transparently cowardly or disingenuous it might be), or suspend the Dotard’s feed.
Assuming we all agree that remaining silent while a person with great responsibility and power spews venom and lies (which as far as I know is what Twitter has done until now) is clearly bad and cowardly.
Considering the remaining 2 options, and considering the looming election, suspending Dotard’s feed might lead to a rallying cry amongst people who think they believe in free speech. The resulting backlash might generate sympathy for his long-running narrative of being a victim of censorship by the “lame stream liberal media, etc”, might lead to his account being reinstated in an even greater act of corporate cowardice, and might result in a net increase of sympathy for the asshat.
In no way defending Twitter here. Just wondering if maybe by not suspending the feed, they (through no virtue of theirs) avoided a negative outcome.
They’re nothing without each other. They’re symbiotes.
Or ever. I couldn’t imagine who needed to see my thought-nuggets.
OK I’m taking a crap now
Ahhhh, that was a good one!*
*Harry Shearer used this joke after I thought of it.
He’s doing that anyway. “They might as well do what’s right,” said the year 2010.
Yep, didn’t see that until right after I posted. Felt kinda silly.
I still can’t help thinking (while having zero expertise on political science matters) that it’s better they didn’t shit down his feed (typo left intact). His claims of censorship now look that much stupider. He wasn’t censored, he was corrected. I think we can all agree on that now, right? Right?
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