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Inside Twitter's Long, Slow Struggle To Police Bad Actors (wsj.com)
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has personally weighed in on high-profile decisions, frustrating some employees. An anonymous reader shares a report: When Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey testifies before Congress this week, he'll likely be asked about an issue that has been hovering over the company: Just who decides whether a user gets kicked off the site? To some Twitter users -- and even some employees -- it is a mystery. In policing content on the site and punishing bad actors, Twitter relies primarily on its users to report abuses and has a consistent set of policies so that decisions aren't made by just one person, its executives say. Yet, in some cases, Mr. Dorsey has weighed in on content decisions at the last minute or after they were made, sometimes resulting in changes and frustrating other executives and employees [Editor's note: the link may be paywalled; alternative source], according to people familiar with the matter. Understanding Mr. Dorsey's role in making content decisions is crucial, as Twitter tries to become more transparent to its 335 million users, as well as lawmakers about how it polices toxic content on its site.
Last month, after Twitter's controversial decision to allow far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to remain on its platform, Mr. Dorsey told one person that he had overruled a decision by his staff to kick Mr. Jones off, according to a person familiar with the discussion. Twitter disputes that account and says Mr. Dorsey wasn't involved in those discussions. Twitter's initial inaction on Mr. Jones, after several other major tech companies banned or limited his content, drew fierce backlash from the public and Twitter's own employees, some of whom tweeted in protest. [...] "Any suggestion that Jack made or overruled any of these decisions is completely and totally false," Twitter's chief legal officer, Vijaya Gadde, said in a statement. "Our service can only operate fairly if it's run through consistent application of our rules, rather than the personal views of any executive, including our CEO."
Last month, after Twitter's controversial decision to allow far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to remain on its platform, Mr. Dorsey told one person that he had overruled a decision by his staff to kick Mr. Jones off, according to a person familiar with the discussion. Twitter disputes that account and says Mr. Dorsey wasn't involved in those discussions. Twitter's initial inaction on Mr. Jones, after several other major tech companies banned or limited his content, drew fierce backlash from the public and Twitter's own employees, some of whom tweeted in protest. [...] "Any suggestion that Jack made or overruled any of these decisions is completely and totally false," Twitter's chief legal officer, Vijaya Gadde, said in a statement. "Our service can only operate fairly if it's run through consistent application of our rules, rather than the personal views of any executive, including our CEO."
Who said he broke no laws? I don't think anyone is saying that, you're kind of a retarded abstraction layer to an otherwise easily observed factual record. Trump is guilty of multiple high crimes including tax fraud, conspiracy, campaign fraud, bank fraud, emoluments, being a moron who can't lay off twitter "officially" to the detriment of both his presidency and his legal defense when these things are tried in the Senate, ETCETERA ET AL. Bob Mueller will see you now, bitches.
You understand that criminals were criminals BEFORE the guilt was proven in court. It's not that you cannot point out their crimes because of presumption of innocence, you just want to pretend he's innocent for propaganda purposes.
The assertion that he's being investigate because he's being labelled a nazi, is false. He's being investigated because his campaign's Papadopoulos, got drunk and blabbed about Trump's Russian backing. And his campaigns Manafort received a mass of undeclared Russian money for his work in Ukraine, and his lawyer Cohen has long been money laundering Trump bribes. I don't just mean the hooker payoffs, I also mean the $66k/quarter paid to his bodyguards lawyer, shortly after the bodyguard testified to the Russia inquiry that he turned away hookers in Moscow.
etc. etc. etc.
https://imgur.com/0CToREC
Let's stop calling them "snowflakes" and start calling them what they are: totalitarian shitlords.
If you say "socialism" and "Venezuela" in the mirror three times a socialist account will appear behind you to tell you Venezuela isn't actually socialist and anyway it was done wrong. (just like all of the others)
Strat is exactly right. Fascism was an attempt to avoid the economic collapse of Leninism while retaining the authoritarian control.