Posted on 08/04/2017 2:06:45 PM PDT by EdnaMode
President Donald Trump’s son, Eric Trump, on Friday accused Twitter of censoring one of his tweets.
In a tweet on Friday, the president's son tweeted out a screenshot of a tweet posted earlier on Friday that read “Jobs Jobs Jobs!!!” followed by several American flag emojis. The tweet also retweeted another user's tweet that included a Drudge Report link about Friday's jobs report.
Eric Trump's tweet was hidden for some viewers behind a standard Twitter warning, which was depicted in the screenshot. The grey warning box reads: “This tweet is not available because it includes potentially sensitive content.”
“Why are my tweets about jobs and the economy being censored? #Interesting” Trump tweeted in response.
Twitter declined to comment on the record about the matter.
However, the company has recently introduced features intended to reduce abuse on the site, which include labeling certain accounts as "sensitive" that may include content some users could find offensive.
Those "sensitive" accounts include content sympathetic to both right- and left-wing ideologies. Some users labeled "sensitive" have already complained about their designation.
@DRUDGE_REPORT, the Twitter account that Trump retweeted, is not verified. It tweets out the majority of aggregated content added to the site Drudge Report and is marked as a sensitive account.
In contrast, Eric Trump's Twitter account and the Twitter account used by Drudge Report founder Matt Drudge, @Drudge, are verified accounts.
Julia Manchester contributed to this report.
Trumps ought to pool funds with other billionaires and create really good alternatives to Youtube, Twitter, and Facebook. Gab and Vid.me don’t seem to be catching on.
One would expect Twitter to censure and promote whatever fits their agenda.
Unless you’re marketing a product, Twitter is awful. Why would anyone want to blurt out random thoughts to all and sundry. It’s ended careers by the hundreds.
Where in the Constitution does it say a person has a right to not be offended?...........
It’s also a public company. Is censorship of this sort good for business? I doubt it.
Sure.
Agreed. I only use it for news updates.
With the exception of Trump. Social media is a scourge of the earth.
Eric Trumps post may have been a violation of an obscure federal law.
http://thehill.com/regulation/345351-trump-breaks-jobs-report-comment-rule
Trump breaks federal rule about commenting on jobs report
President Trump broke an obscure yet tried-and-true rule on Friday — don’t comment on the monthly jobs report within the hour of its release.
Oh brother. Silly.
I’ve seen completely innocuous images censored (you can still see them if you click on it) as “potentially offensives” or some such garbage.
Trump could start his own company, “Trumpet” from the White house.
>Duh. It’s a private platform. Twitter, like FR can censure what they want.
>One would expect Twitter to censure and promote whatever fits their agenda.
According to twitter management they’re not doing this. Scott Adam’s has been shadow banned like Eric Trump and the CEO of twitter has worked with him to try and determine whats going on. It appears that someone slipped a shadow ban control system into twitters code without authorization. For all we know Hillary paid a twitter programmer to do it.
>Those “sensitive” accounts include content sympathetic to both right- and left-wing ideologies.
>Sure.
It’s true, but it only happened to Bernie Sanders supporters. Never Hillary Clinton supporters.
> I would expect them to allow free, uncensored expression by their users - but as you said, it’s theirs to do with as they please. Having an agenda basically separates them from a lot of their potential customers. I hope it ends up poorly for them. I know I’ll be doing my part to help that happen.
I don’t think it’s theirs to do as they please. If the courts are going to make us bake cakes for sodomites then we might as well make them respect free speech.
Twitter has fired conservative editors and hired snowflakes to review tweets. I have since canceled my account. I only had it to read Pres. Trump’s tweets, but they are reported daily so I don’t need an account anymore. More people should do the same...
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