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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: 1, Troll) by jmorris on Friday March 29 2019, @03:35PM (1 child)
Actually, they can't. At least they can't keep that TOS and remain a PLATFORM. They can only keep it if they reclassify as a PUBLISHER.
As a publisher they can impose any editorial standards they like, make it a leftwing hugbox, Jack can knock himself out. But what he must NOT be permitted to do is remain within the legal safe harbor extended to neutral platforms. The phone company is not liable for the traffic that moves over it, because it is a platform. The New York Times is liable for what appears on its pages, paper or virtual. Jack needs to be made to choose. Choose and be damned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @09:32PM
Even if this is true, the law will be changed so they can arbitrarily remove all of the beheading videos, hate speech, or anything they dislike and still remain a platform.