Twitter finally surrendered and relented on its censorship of the NY Post!
They wouldn’t let the NY Post into their own Twitter account unless they deleted their Hunter Biden laptop tweets. They claimed it violated their hacking policy.
The NY Post wouldn’t delete the tweets about the stories. The tweets and the story were 100% accurate, 100% factual, and not hacked.
We’re baaaaaaack https://t.co/D39qdLGMdV pic.twitter.com/SkVtp4o9ew
— New York Post (@nypost) October 30, 2020
TWITTER BLATHER
Our policies are living documents. We’re willing to update and adjust them when we encounter new scenarios or receive important feedback from the public. One such example is the recent change to our Hacked Materials Policy and its impact on accounts like the New York Post.
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) October 30, 2020
In response, we’re updating our practice of not retroactively overturning prior enforcement.
Decisions made under policies that are subsequently changed & published can now be appealed if the account at issue is a driver of that change. We believe this is fair and appropriate.
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) October 30, 2020
This means that because a specific @nypost enforcement led us to update the Hacked Materials Policy, we will no longer restrict their account under the terms of the previous policy and they can now Tweet again.
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) October 30, 2020
This is nonsense. The materials aren’t hacked, and Twitter’s excuse is blather. It doesn’t matter. It’s a victory for free speech, at least in this one instance.
That scene in Natural Born Killers where Wayne Gale’s handler is making the silly face with the talking hand gesture is what I thought of reading that Twitter drivel. Fam hates that movie and one even cried but I loved the depiction of media persona. Hack? Isn’t the H-1B tech team top notch and aware of all internet traditions? Something… Read more »
I did notice the markets today on this
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1322314791545839616
Could it be due to Sec. Wolf citing “national security” in what Twitter is doing. THAT can have all kinds of ramifications and surely Their “legal” team “took notice”.