Social media controls the world

ShivaX · 2021-12-02T21:17:33.157Z

Matthew Green

If this wasn’t the outcome that @TwitterSupport expected and wanted, they’d sure better find some better people to lead their teams. twitter.com/krisgoldsmith8…

Kristofer Goldsmith @KrisGoldsmith85

NEW: Last night nazis of Charlottesville-riot-infamy instructed thousands of followers to mass-report accounts of 48 journalists, anti-racist activists, + anti-fascist researchers for retroactive "violations" of @TwitterSafety's new "Private Information Policy." Some down already https://t.co/F711lkrEkk

8:43 PM - 2 Dec 2021 65 38

Telefrog · 2021-12-02T21:41:51.169Z

Who could’ve possibly seen this coming?

KevinC · 2021-12-02T22:04:32.398Z

Jack woulda never let this happen!

CraigM · 2021-12-02T22:06:58.973Z

Gonna be honest, I wonder if this is somehow related to him stepping down.

Menzo · 2021-12-02T22:54:33.708Z

CraigM:

Gonna be honest, I wonder if this is somehow related to him stepping down.

The timing certainly does lead to that possibility.

ShivaX · 2021-12-03T00:09:20.052Z

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Black-HeartedEvilPopehat

@Popehat

Represent new clients and meet new friends online! https://t.co/BSwf2zQ6cx

11:22 PM - 2 Dec 2021 430 26

Menzo · 2021-12-03T00:12:46.448Z

I have to think they’re going to reverse this policy swiftly. I can only assume it’s going to drive people to competitors like Instagram, Facebook, etc. Not to mention it’s a bad look to be pulling stuff down at the behest of Nazis.

ShivaX · 2021-12-03T00:32:19.178Z

Menzo:

Not to mention it’s a bad look to be pulling stuff down at the behest of Nazis.

It’s also Classic Twitter.

But people on both sides are unhappy about it, so maybe something will happen.

ShivaX · 2021-12-03T00:48:06.531Z

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Black-HeartedEvilPopehat

@Popehat

So how is @TwitterSafety doing with their new plan? Well, if the goal was to fluff extremists, I’d say great. Extremists, including sundry white nationalists, have successfully mass-reported accounts that report on them and their activities. /1

12:43 AM - 3 Dec 2021 92 43

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Black-HeartedEvilPopehat

@Popehat

/2 For instance, @chadloder’s account has been suspended twice — for the same tweets. Reported and suspended, restored and told it was a mistake, mass reported and suspended again the same day for the same tweets. https://t.co/iXzYJNhhzW

12:43 AM - 3 Dec 2021 43 7

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Black-HeartedEvilPopehat

@Popehat

/3 The tweets that got him suspended? Talking about someone whose January 6-related federal guilty plea was reported by @washingtonpost. Swell. washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…

12:43 AM - 3 Dec 2021 52 9

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Black-HeartedEvilPopehat

@Popehat

/4 I haven’t heard anyone who thinks this new policy was a good idea, and you couldn’t have made it any better for white nationalist trolls if @SteveKingIA had designed it.

12:43 AM - 3 Dec 2021 80 9

Menzo · 2021-12-04T21:15:50.973Z

It now appears that Twitter somehow did not anticipate Nazis using their new policy against their enemies.

What a bunch of idiots.

CNN

Right-wing activists are openly 'weaponizing' Twitter's new private media policy

Twitter acknowledged on Friday that a new policy it unveiled this week to protect users from harassment is being abused by malicious actors — days after journalists, left-wing activists and self-described "sedition hunters" reported their accounts...

krayzkrok · 2021-12-05T04:11:24.936Z

Ripley was right. IQs did drop sharply.

ShivaX · 2021-12-11T10:16:59.667Z

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matthew.

@iAmTheWarax

my account was locked for two tweets i made four years ago that included publicly available photos of a public individual convicted of sex-crimes against children so, really great work with the new policy, twitter. you're making the internet a safer place (for sex predators). https://t.co/OUXqALwLKh

9:03 AM - 11 Dec 2021 140 41

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Blake Herzinger

@BDHerzinger

@iAmTheWarax What is going on in these comments https://t.co/5YeXm4Eokz

9:08 AM - 11 Dec 2021 6

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matthew.

@iAmTheWarax

@BDHerzinger i am not sure but it looks like twitter's new media policy, which protected a pedophile convicted of sex crimes against children, has also created a new scam ecosphere

9:16 AM - 11 Dec 2021 8

Aceris · 2021-12-14T09:54:06.812Z

I have to say, unfollowing anyone who posts anything political that irritates me and adding a ragdoll cat group to my facebook groups has drastically improved my social media experience.

I can have all my political arguments anonymously on here :)

Aceris · 2022-01-05T15:58:28.748Z

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Steven Bartlett

@SteveBartlettSC

I think the banning of politics for all on twitter is one of the shadiest things I’ve ever seen from a social media platform in my entire life. Knowing the backstory and how and “why” it happened has made me deeply question the integrity of the people at Twitter. My thoughts:

10:26 PM - 4 Jan 2022 18K 4.1K

politics for all was a moderately sensationalist twitter account that linked to news stories and put their own spin on things. It got suspended. A lot of traditional media with less successful social media strategies were happy about this.

Zylon · 2022-01-05T16:08:03.449Z

“Put their own spin on things” doesn’t tell me anything. How much research am I going to have to do to decide whether or not I should be momentarily outraged about this?

scottagibson · 2022-01-05T16:08:46.903Z

The good news? You can be outraged with no research at all!

Aceris · 2022-01-05T16:11:10.693Z

Zylon:

“Put their own spin on things” doesn’t tell me anything. How much research am I going to have to do to decide whether or not I should be momentarily outraged about this?

Well you can’t easily do the research because twitter have made it all vanish!

They’d retell what they thought the interesting bit of the story was in a few words, and link to the article in a reply. They were accused of being right wing, and they probably skewed that way a little bit but nothing extreme. The owner had a part-time gig with the Spectator, but I certainly didn’t notice it linking to the spectator a lot.

Menzo · 2022-01-12T17:48:22.986Z

Remember what this is really all about for the deplorables. No Jews allowed in their white Christian caliphate.

The image in question:

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antlers · 2022-01-12T18:02:22.384Z

From the comments it seems that Politics for All might’ve been doing a number of things that were Twitter no-nos, including linking to stories for money without disclosing that they were sponsored; Twitter’s explanatory e-mail references that. Steven Bartlett’s extended thread gives no indication that he “knows the backstory” or has any reason to question Twitter’s integrity beyond the usual wingnut conspiracy mongering.

Telefrog · 2022-01-12T18:02:55.813Z

Gettr exec vs Gettr users?

Let them fight.