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To be fair, 90% of everything shitty about the world is caused by white men so that tracks ;-)

4542

Well, to be fair, that’s probably only true for the last 300 or 400 years.

And, you know, the Chinese government is trying it’s best to reduce that number to 80% or so.

4543

Well, “white men” (as in, Whiteness) have only really existed for about that long, so, yeah.

4544

Dorsey stepping down.

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4546

This seems like a pretty big fucking deal.

What is in violation of this policy?
Under our private information policy, you can’t share the following types of private information or media, without the permission of the person who it belongs to:

  • home address or physical location information, including street addresses, GPS coordinates or other identifying information related to locations that are considered private;
  • identity documents, including government-issued IDs and social security or other national identity numbers – note: we may make limited exceptions in regions where this information is not considered to be private;
  • contact information, including non-public personal phone numbers or email addresses;
  • financial account information, including bank account and credit card details; and
  • other private information, including biometric data or medical records.
  • NEW: media of private individuals without the permission of the person(s) depicted.
4547

On the surface, it sounds good for privacy advocates etc. What does this mean for stuff like a video of cops beating up someone or just a picture of your dog in a park with random passerby in the background?

Edit: Or a video of a Karen on a racist tirade in a coffee shop?

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I imagine it means Twitter can and will take them down. This is probably a move to stop Twitter mobbing. Twitter’s brand has become closely linked to mob mentality. The racist Karen can get her comeuppance from getting exposed and doxxed on Twitter, but I don’t think Twitter wants that kind of mob justice to be what people associate them with.

4549

I think the Karen videos get taken down, as do videos of idiots chasing down and killing someone, assuming the idiots haven’t posted the video themselves. Though of course the victim didn’t give permission in that case, so maybe that gets taken down too.

I don’t know what they’ll do with a typical crowd scene, like a concert, and they probably don’t either.

The cop videos? I don’t know if that’s the ‘public figure’ or ‘public service’ exception.

4550

What if it’s a journalist, however you define it, does it go down? A publicity campaign where no one in an audience signed consent?
I appreciate the idea, but they should expect attacks against impossible neutrality.
It’s also clear that it’s more editorializing being done.

4551

Yes, it reads like an attempt to end the Karen-shaming, but with not much thought given to how it would actually work in practice.

4552

I mean it also stops crazy right-wing nuts from posting a random photo of someone in a polling place and saying that he or she was clearly stealing votes using a USB thumb drive or something.

But yes, a blanket rule like this is likely going to have lots of unintended consequences.

4553

Future McMichael brothers thank Twitter in advance.

4554

And so it begins.

Public = private = the next Chauvin or McMichael is more likely to get off because no one ever sees what happened

4555

This is also a huge gift to bad cops being filmed.

4556

Yep. I did mention Chauvin for a reason. The next one will claim him murdering someone is “private media” even while he does it on a street in broad daylight and Twitter will ban everyone who shares it.

Edit: New fun thing to do though. Go on Andy Ngo’s account and report everything with a picture on it since none of them are “authorized” (and many are actually private, ironically). At the end of the day no one wants this except maybe dirty cops.

Twitter even makes it easy to do by clicking on “media”.

4557

Maybe this is why Jack quit?

I don’t think Twitter wants to be a political force. The just want to harvest your data and sell it to advertisers. You can still post Karen videos on Reddit (for now).

4558

Right now it seems to be used to protect far-right extremists. Already hearing reports of folks being suspended for such.