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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.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @04:00PM (1 child)
Trump is "rich" (just ask him) so he can afford to roll out his own platform to compete with Twitter (let's call it trumpter). He also claims to know more about technology than anyone, and he only hires the best people, so trumpter should be a huge success.
This isn't censorship, it's the opening salvo to capitalism.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday March 29 2019, @06:08PM
Trump is "rich" (just ask him)
Why doesn't he just buy Twitter? Problem solved.. That's real capitalism!
/s (just in case)
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..