On top of everything else, "censor" is what governments do, not what publishers do. The idea that not publishing something is censorship would never have crossed anyone's mind until the internet provided infinite space (and sense of entitlement!).
On top of everything else, "censor" is what governments do, not what publishers do. The idea that not publishing something is censorship would never have crossed anyone's mind until the internet provided infinite space (and sense of entitlement!).
True, but Taibbi muddied the waters by claiming that government agencies were involved in telling Twitter what to to delete and who to suspend. If true, that would kind of cross into censorship territory. This article does a good job of dismantling that, although there were a few cases of government agencies flagging tweets that Twitter then removed
absolutely fair point, but as you realize, flagging a comment is not the same as suppressing it, but musk didn't pay taibbi to come to that conclusion.
On top of everything else, "censor" is what governments do, not what publishers do. The idea that not publishing something is censorship would never have crossed anyone's mind until the internet provided infinite space (and sense of entitlement!).
True, but Taibbi muddied the waters by claiming that government agencies were involved in telling Twitter what to to delete and who to suspend. If true, that would kind of cross into censorship territory. This article does a good job of dismantling that, although there were a few cases of government agencies flagging tweets that Twitter then removed
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/mehdi-hasan-dismantles-the-entire-foundation-of-the-twitter-files-as-matt-taibbi-stumbles-to-defend-it/#comments
absolutely fair point, but as you realize, flagging a comment is not the same as suppressing it, but musk didn't pay taibbi to come to that conclusion.