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posted by chromas on Friday March 29 2019, @12:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the goose-in-one-hand-is-worth-taking-a-gander dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @03:47PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @03:47PM (#821853)
    You know what, there's no law that says that President Trump has to use Twitter to communicate what he wants to say to the world. He could, like every other president before him since the invention of television, call a press conference and have himself instantly televised. Is he censored? Hardly. Twitter is no more obliged to publish President Trump's words than is the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal.
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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by jmorris on Friday March 29 2019, @04:17PM (1 child)

    by jmorris (4844) on Friday March 29 2019, @04:17PM (#821872)

    See my comment above. But it really depends on whether twitter is a publisher or a platform. You are correct they have no obligation to PUBLISH what Mr. Trump writes. But if they are a platform they do have an obligation to CARRY it from one subscriber to another.

    • (Score: 4, Interesting) by urza9814 on Friday March 29 2019, @04:41PM

      by urza9814 (3954) on Friday March 29 2019, @04:41PM (#821881) Journal

      Pretty sure they're an interactive computer service and therefore legally permitted to apply filtering of "material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected"

      https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230 [cornell.edu]

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by DannyB on Friday March 29 2019, @05:04PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 29 2019, @05:04PM (#821893) Journal

    He could, like every other president before him since the invention of television, call a press conference and have himself instantly televised.

    When he does that, it always makes him look bad. And it requires preparation.

    He's better at it now than the disasterous news conference in, I think, Feb 2017. But he still has problems with complete sentences. Coherent thoughts. Expressing non-simple ideas.

    Twitter's character limit, even doubled, still largely hides those communication deficits. So Twitter is preferred over television or radio. It also requires no preparation. You don't need make up. You don't even need to be wearing clothing.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 30 2019, @09:05AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 30 2019, @09:05AM (#822273)

      You don't need make up. You don't even need to be wearing clothing.

      And now, we all have, in our minds, a picture, of a naked Donald, holding an iPhone. Thanks.

      • (Score: 3, Touché) by DannyB on Sunday March 31 2019, @02:34AM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 31 2019, @02:34AM (#822584) Journal

        I did not mention the Golden Throne.

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