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Wanderers Ways. Neil Thompson 1961-2021

The 2020 USA Presidential election


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1 hour ago, Casino said:

All very interesting but it has balls all to do with Kents post

You use twitter and you follow their rules

If you break the rules, off you pop

Pretty sure that was Kents point

It has everything to do with Kents post to be fair.

If you can gather 80 million followers you can have for more say than many broadcasts with nothing to stop you.

My point is, twitter shouldn't be setting the rules with that sort of power, same with Facebook - hence regulation is required. Weve allowed private company's to base their whole.model.on data harvesting and set on parameters on this, they given them license to set their own rules about what they deem to be right and wrong. 

In future, we'll.look back at this era of SM in the same way as alcohol, we'll end up giving barriers but after the horse has bolted.

Its a simple point that people.are missing, as you outline above. 

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1 hour ago, Not in Crawley said:

It has everything to do with Kents post to be fair.

If you can gather 80 million followers you can have for more say than many broadcasts with nothing to stop you.

My point is, twitter shouldn't be setting the rules with that sort of power, same with Facebook - hence regulation is required. Weve allowed private company's to base their whole.model.on data harvesting and set on parameters on this, they given them license to set their own rules about what they deem to be right and wrong. 

In future, we'll.look back at this era of SM in the same way as alcohol, we'll end up giving barriers but after the horse has bolted.

Its a simple point that people.are missing, as you outline above. 

I'm definitely missing your point.

New company starts up promoting social media platform.  It has to have rules that reflect the law.  User breaks those rules, user gets kicked off.

What's the alternative? Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Parler etc cant just standby and do nowt while users eg break the law, incite violence, promote discrimination otherwise they'd be culpable.

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31 minutes ago, Duck Egg said:

I'm definitely missing your point.

New company starts up promoting social media platform.  It has to have rules that reflect the law.  User breaks those rules, user gets kicked off.

What's the alternative? Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Parler etc cant just standby and do nowt while users eg break the law, incite violence, promote discrimination otherwise they'd be culpable.

Well Parler were prepared to but Apple and google have pulled the app from their webstores and now Amazon AWS have said they'll no longer host the site on their servers

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If Trump has something important to say to the world, he can hold a Press Conference or do a speech whenever he wants, and every camera within a 50 mile radius would be on him, and it would be broadcast on every news channel. To suggest social media platforms are violating his "free speech" and they should let him say exactly what he wants on their platforms because he's POTUS is fucking ridiculous. It's very simple - if you incite or glorify violence, you get banned. I don't remember anyone screaming about "free speech" a few years ago when Twitter purged hundreds of thousands of ISIS accounts...

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37 minutes ago, Cheese said:

If Trump has something important to say to the world, he can hold a Press Conference or do a speech whenever he wants, and every camera within a 50 mile radius would be on him, and it would be broadcast on every news channel. To suggest social media platforms are violating his "free speech" and they should let him say exactly what he wants on their platforms because he's POTUS is fucking ridiculous. It's very simple - if you incite or glorify violence, you get banned. I don't remember anyone screaming about "free speech" a few years ago when Twitter purged hundreds of thousands of ISIS accounts...

Agree, but surely that should apply to everyone and not just who Twitter/Facebook want to? 

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3 minutes ago, royal white said:

Then why do Twitter and Facebook allows 10s of thousands to incite or glorify violence daily? There’s clearly thousands of accounts that they’re happy to ignore which is wrong

Do you have any examples? Have you reported these accounts?

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11 minutes ago, Cheese said:

Do you have any examples? Have you reported these accounts?

Its a shame you can’t get onto Trumps account as there were literally 1000s Of tweets. There’s still plenty for you to have a look at on his sons and on the POTUS account. 
 

As for reporting, someone I follow reported numerous comments on a picture of Greta thunberg on her birthday. People saying she needs to be fucked up the arse with an axe, raped off an African gang etc etc. It’s ended up with his account being suspended yet all the people promoting violence/rape being allowed to stay on. 

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On 09/01/2021 at 04:56, MickyD said:

Don’t bring me into your petty bickering. I happened to quote someone in my reply to them, you sulked because you didn’t want to see what that person had written and you accused me of quoting just to piss you off when in fact, I give absolutely no fucks at all. Once you’d chucked teddy from the pram it was game on for a few weeks and then I got bored.

Bullseye! :D

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6 hours ago, royal white said:

Then why do Twitter and Facebook allows 10s of thousands to incite or glorify violence daily? There’s clearly thousands of accounts that they’re happy to ignore which is wrong

Think it’s more to do with they can’t monitor everything, and why they have the report feature.

The eyes of the world aren’t on Dave from Barnsley writing send the buggers back but the POTUS tweets are headline news 

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10 hours ago, Duck Egg said:

I'm definitely missing your point.

New company starts up promoting social media platform.  It has to have rules that reflect the law.  User breaks those rules, user gets kicked off.

What's the alternative? Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Parler etc cant just standby and do nowt while users eg break the law, incite violence, promote discrimination otherwise they'd be culpable.

What law? That's the issue, there is no laws governing social media other than their own rules. 

They are NOT culpable for what their users write, did you see Zuckerberg in front of the senetae committee, this is the issue.

Last summer, all large media companies stopped using Facebook advertising for a short time due to its lack of policy around race hate. Again all independently done, FB issued a statement about working on this issue and the media company's jumped back on. As a friend of mine said, it was the toughest few weeks as where would the spend go, especially when trad media and OOH are being given away as no one is watching/our of their homes.

They are monopolies, they are beholden to none but themselves. The eco system that they feed is built on sand, but without them thousands of businesses would be fucked, again which is why the gvts don't step in. This is unhealthy. 

As I say, Trump has done one good thing, his dragged this issue directly into the mainstream and now there will have to be action.

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