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: 5, Insightful) by urza9814 on Friday March 29 2019, @04:33PM
Yes, it is a free country. And twitter is free to operate their service as they choose. If you don't like it, you're free to start your own competing platform.
The bigger problem/question is why the fuck our president is using a private corporation as though it's a public communications medium. Post his shit on WhiteHouse.gov or the White House press briefings or something else that is actually a PUBLIC platform. The president is CHOOSING to let himself be censored, and CHOOSING to let Twitter deny any or all of us access to those posts. And I suppose he has a right to make that choice -- it's a free country, after all...