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Twitter may Tag Rule-Breaking Trump Tweets:
Twitter said Thursday it could start tagging tweets from newsworthy figures such as US President Donald Trump that break its rules, while stopping short of deleting them.
The one-to-many messaging platform used extensively by Trump to fire off comments, some of them inflammatory, said it is exploring ways to add context to tweets considered to be of legitimate public interest but which violate its terms of service.
"Twitter is exploring ways to provide more context around tweets that violate our rules, but are newsworthy and in the legitimate public interest," the company said in an emailed statement.
[...]Twitter's trust and safety chief Vijaya Gadde [...] said during an on-stage interview at a Washington Post technology forum in San Francisco that Twitter was looking at ways to "put some context around it so people are aware that that content is actually a violation of our rules and it is serving a particular purpose in remaining on the platform."
Tweets that go too far, such as threatening someone with violence, would be removed no matter who posts them, according to Gadde.
The rules don't have to be followed if you are "newsworthy", but the rest of us have to abide by them. Got it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @06:02PM
The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES is free to open his own platform to communicate whatever he likes to the public at large. In fact he already has one [whitehouse.gov]. And for all his complaints about "fake news", all major news journalism outlets restate what he has said almost as soon as he says it. The only problem for the President is that most news outlets actually state the truth as well, which is pretty damning to a sociopathic narcissistic serial liar.
So no, that's not censorship. The President has proven himself to be the least censored person in the United States. (Just because others place the truth alongside his lying claims, or that the narrative does not say what he wants it to, does not mean he has been censored.) In fact, many of us dearly wish the President would start censoring himself.
And the point is that Twitter is already using its powers to control its platform (which is perfectly legal and not at all immoral) against 'everyone else' but is looking for a way to allow it's star spokesperson and one of the few reasons the platform hasn't gone under completely to keep doing what he does while the majority of the plebians are silenced at will (which is immoral).
Glad I could clear that up for you!