The media and the scandal/scrutiny vacuum with Trump off Twitter

PCLoadLetter · Feb 20, 2021

Severian said: ↑

Or don't be active on social media and focus on your work. Twitter is an addiction, and people with large followings get off at the idea that they have a personal army who will soak up their bullshit.
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For the life of me, I will never understand the people who adopt this sort of puritanical moralistic bullshit attitude to Twitter.

Some of can actually work and have a twitter account. If you can't juggle both, you do you.

BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo · Feb 20, 2021

Plus if you don't have a Twitter account with a large following, how are you going to get hired at The Athletic? [/cross-threading]

Fredrick · Feb 21, 2021

Dan Omlor said: ↑

Well, as for a message board being a private company and having the right to ban anyone it wants, I had an interesting experience with Facebook in November. Two days before Thanksgiving, I posted a cartoon showing turkeys protesting, carrying signs reading "Eat More Chikin," "Beef : It's What's For Dinner" and "Turkey Lives Matter." Facebook took offense. They notified me I was in violation of their community standards and if I posted any more of these insensitive cartoons I would lose my privileges. Then they attached a box to my post that, for some reason, repeated the results of the November election. Now, yes, of course, this is comical. But it also reveals that the Facebook bots who actually do the screening and banning are clueless and were not programmed with a sense of hum0r. If they found my Turkey cartoon objectionable, what else might they find objectionable? If one of the turkeys had been carrying an "Arrest Trump" or "Praise Allah" sign, would the bots have deemed the cartoon acceptable? More recently, I posted an interview with three of the migrants being allowed to enter the U.S. under Biden's new policies. Facebook notified me it contained information "out of context," and added the box repeating the results of November's election. The only "information" the interview contained was what the migrants said, which was basically that they left home because of gang violence and inability to find jobs to support their families. So what in this case triggered the bots? Who knows. But this censorship process is arbitrary and seriously flawed. Yes, I know, this is tangential to the Twitter case, but I'm not on Twitter so Facebook is my only experience.
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Your story makes me want newspapers to ban facebook as well as twitter. This censorship is disgusting. Newspapers should have none of it.

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