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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: 4, Insightful) by DannyB on Friday March 29 2019, @05:04PM (2 children)
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.
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 30 2019, @09:05AM (1 child)
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
I did not mention the Golden Throne.
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.