So basically they just removed the ability for people to hold people in power accountable by making their mischievous acts known in public, while it is known that "proper, lawful" channels would not have worked due to conflict of interest..?
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"Public figures are exempt from the policy, Twitter said"
Is the president's son smoking crack with a hooker a public figure?
Or a guy mowing down a Christmas Parade in his car?
A guy did that? The news told me an SUV did it and it was an accident. Nothing to see here, move along.
An SUV that "was not being chased by police." Wonder what the truth is.
Is a cop beating a protestor a public figure?
I assume it falls under "newsworthy events" too.
There have been cases where independent journalists have had their footage censored by Twitter on specious grounds (riot footage as "promoting violence", etc), only for that same footage to be allowed on the accounts of larger media companies. This policy is only going to further entrench MSM institutional power.
Why are people up in arms about Twitter blocking videos? Just post your YouTube link somewhere else. What am I missing?
Because a) Youtube does it too and b) often they get their Twitter accounts suspended.
The problem is the time between when the video is published and when it gets seen by enough people to be considered newsworthy.
Let’s be clear, is Epstein a public figure?
Well he’s dead. So in general you always have to be careful.
For anyone who hasn't seen it, this is a joke, using Bill Gates' actual answer to an interviewer asking about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Wow this is bad lol, can't believe no one coached him. Looks like a kid trying to worm out of punishment.
At least HN would never censor and stop you from posting a video like this right? It sounds like he practiced his response with a team of lawyers and everything said was carefully scripted.
And the mainstream media decides who is a "public figure" and who isn't.
No, Twitter moderators and appeals/review committees do, for Twitter (the site we’re discussing).
They really don't want people like Andy Ngo posting photos of people rioting / committing crimes / etc.
They also REALLY don't like that Project Veritas uses their service to link people to undercover videos of big tech companies admitting to doing shady stuff. Big tech covers for big tech.