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Twitter Allegedly Deleting Negative Tweets About United Airlines' Passenger Abuse (thenextweb.com)
New submitter dooode writes: As you would have read, United just had another Nazi moment where they had to "re-accommodate" a customer using some (not so gentle) force. The social web seems to have been taken by a storm by this incident. But suddenly people are noticing their tweets are being deleted -- some of them merely status questions. Does twitter make money (read bribes) to delete negative tweets? What do you feel about it? The Next Web adds that "some of the allegedly deleted tweets did not directly mention the incident with the forcibly removed passenger." On the flip side, "some of the initial tweets exposing United Airlines' abusive treatment of passengers are still very much present and actively being reshared on the platform." It's possible that the "allegedly deleted tweets" initially appeared as replies to now-deleted tweets, but TNW says they contacted several users who rejected that premise, "claiming the missing posts were standard tweets."
Steering people to a platform where they get used to being censored is the entire point of Web 2.0, isn't it? What, do you want people to learn how to host their own webpages again? Luddite.
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I have no clue whether they "deleted tweets" and if so which and how many about what.
But can people please stop acting surprised when you centralize your communications on a commercial service you do not control, cannot run yourself on your own node because it's proprietary, and which grants itself 100% control of the contents of your communications, and then that service somehow alters or removes things you say? It's all inside their walled garden. You said that was OK when you signed up.
If you give control to someone, don't complain when they use it.
From corporations, their customers, or the government. An overreaction all around and that includes the passenger as well as the videos that neglected to show what happened beforehand.
Having been bumped from flights it's not a fun experience and I even missed a job interview because of that. But please let's all act like adults. We bought into this notion and now look what's happened. The combined of deregulation and the rise of the police state allows us very few choices in flying cattle cars that can sell seats multiple times to optimize profit. When flying you are not considered a person, you are geese. Not in control and able to be ordered around like children per federal laws.
Blame United. Blame the passenger. Or why not blame all social media for turning us into rage induced narcissists. But most of all look in the mirror and blame yourselves for being boiled to death. You've earned it.
He brought this on himself ...
I'm not sure about this. You seem to be suggesting that he should have yielded to authoritarianism without being able to state his case. I kinda get it -- he who runs away lives to fight another day. Maybe. Yield to the dictator du'jour. Acquiesce to those in charge simply because they are "in charge". The people have no power. I don't particularly like where this is heading.
I'm trying to imagine the response if it had been an elderly black woman or a man wearing a ghutrah.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
If the rules are that everyone has to do everything a flight attendant asks (as long the flight flight attendant asks nicely) then I'm going to become a flight attendant and (nicely) ask everyone to give me all their money. And then, for an encore, I'll (nicely) ask all the hotties to have sex with me. :)
He who runs away lives to run away another day.
There will never be a shortage of people who will toadie up to bullies in the hope of not being bullied themselves.
Just look at the House GOP caucus.
You are welcome on my lawn.
because its a felony to interfere with a flight crew or the police, and in the worst case you'll end up with homeland security blacklisting you. I'm sure they'll all be happy to give him recorded testimonies for his multimillion dollar lawsuit.
>"I think I would have gone quietly and complained afterward."
That strategy is only good for cases where you are merely unhappy, rather than are being treated unfairly. The airlines who do this already know that people who are bumped involuntarily are going to be unhappy, and they don't care, and won't change. Complaining might get you additional compensation, but won't get the airlines to change. By resisting, this guy may have changed things for the better for all of us.
"another Nazi moment"
I've been coming to Slashdot less and less because while my filter for garbage news with garbage sentences like this hasn't decreased, stuff like this is becomes the news around here more frequently.
Bollocks.
The police can under the right circumstances do a strip search.
That does not give a police officer the right to demand you strip off on the street.
The airline was WRONG.
It was NOT over booked, they wanted seats to transports staff. They should have known this before anyone boarded and gone though the process before anyone got on the plane. United screwed up big time and I hope this costs them millions.
And negroes should sit in the back of the bus or hop off the bus and quietly complain afterwards. Polite requests have always worked in the past after all.
Before condemning Twitter for oppressing your sacred tweets, perhaps we should establish if they did actually delete them or not. So far we have some claims from some dubious accounts that tweets went missing, but no actual evidence. No tweet ID numbers, no archived copies, no orphaned responses to the missing tweets... When tweets are deleted, it doesn't kill of replies to them, it just breaks the reply chain and you can easily see what happened.
I'm calling bullshit on this one until someone produces some actual evidence. If you don't need proof then let's have a conversation about how Slashdot deletes "controversial" posts and how awful that is, because even though I have no evidence I swear it really happened!
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Yes. They could have acknowledged their screw-up and raised the sum they were offering (their last offer was, what, $800?), provided an alternative means of transportation, or whatever.
Yeah, that may have appeared expensive, but I hope that it will appear cheap compared to the costs of this case.
As fas as I heard, they actually did that, but stopped at $800.
Which was probably a bad move, because at that point, people are waiting for the psychologically important threshold of $1000 being crossed.