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Twitter’s debate-chilling problem: The social media site’s arbitrary policies
New York Daily News ^ | August 15, 2019 | John Lott

Posted on 08/19/2019 8:24:23 PM PDT by rogerantone1

I am the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, whose account Twitter locked because it tweeted a link to a Daily News article that I wrote about Twitter locking my personal account. Twitter informs me that the account was locked because the News article contains quotes from the New Zealand mass killer, and New Zealand and Australia have laws against sharing the manifestos of shooters.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; cprc; freespeech; internet; mediabias; technotyranny; twitter

1 posted on 08/19/2019 8:24:23 PM PDT by rogerantone1
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To: rogerantone1

Jack Dorsey is a rbid leftist, doing whatever he wants to do. With that beard, he looks and is a jackass.


2 posted on 08/19/2019 8:38:19 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: rogerantone1

The problem is Twitter’s willing cooperation with any form of despotism as long as there’s a buck to be made today.


3 posted on 08/19/2019 8:41:05 PM PDT by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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I landed in TwitJail 3 or 4 months ago for saying tar, feather and ride out of town on a rail. It was deemed to be hate speech against minorities. Funny thing, there were no minorities within 50 miles of my tweet.

I protested per their instructions.

My protest “review” is still pending. I guess they must have tons of them to wade through.


4 posted on 08/19/2019 8:53:19 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas
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I don’t waste time on twatter.


5 posted on 08/20/2019 2:22:36 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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