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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
More globally: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/t...ent-part-1.php
If you read this thread at all honestly, Yoel Roth of Twitter is telling Baker the Post’s story does not violate guidelines. In the face of this, Baker holds, tenuously, to the proposition, “We don’t know… it might be hacked.” https://twitter.com/mtaibbi
You’ve dealt with media. As have most of us here. Lying to media is easy if it’s not securities stuff. Who cares? No duty is owed. That’s where Baker came down on this: Plausible deniability. That’s all one needs.
It was the smart play for him. But not necessarily the smart play for Twitter? So it must be asked… Who was he really serving? Not Roth, who disagreed. |
How It Started. You started out with the proposition that we are facing authoritarianism on the right and left.
How It's Going. You say a former in-house lawyer at Twitter, a guy previously at the FBI, made a bad decision.
As I said previously, content moderation at Twitter was a thankless and lousy job. Occam's Razor gives you all sorts of ways to explain why they got stuff wrong without resorting to conspiracy theories about ex-FBI agents taking over Twitter from the inside.
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ETA: The Post’s Twitter page was blocked for 16 days, not one.
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OK, whatevs. You still managed to find out about it, a point you keep trying to avoid.
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And… Please show me Twitter’s banning of links to the NYTines’ story about the stolen portion of Trump’s tax returns. Link please.
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Please refer to what I said above about administering Twitter's moderation policies.
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Look, you can’t win this. Just fucking let it go with this understanding: There is a rule, and I get it it, among many “gatekeepers” that any and all means must be employed to stop Trump and his brand of authoritarian populism. Ends justify means.
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I have already won. It's like you're arguing that no one can win the Indy 500 because one of the leaders has a hydraulic problem. Um, OK, but there are many, many other cars in that race. You may not like Twitter's former editorial direction (join the club, it's a big one), but it is one of many, many, many media outlets.
It's the height of obliviousness for you to argue that media gatekeepers are trying to stop Trump this week, with NBC just having given him a chance to lie, uncorrected, on Meet The Press.
NBC acknowledges he lied lots, but it and Kristen Welker couldn't respond live, so the damage is done. If Biden did a fraction of that lying, there'd be a shitstorm, but the media do not know how to respond to Trump's brazen, constant lying, and they love the traffic the draws.
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But stop pretending there’s not a double standard.
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Read harder.
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Are there double standards? Sure. (For example, if Joe Biden said crazy things that Trump says all the time, the media would completely flip out, and rightly so. Trump says them and it's not news.) Does that mean the left is authoritarian? No.
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People...’d be more receptive to the truth: “Yeah. We in media love him as a carnival act for ratings and clicks. But we are allowed to do Whatever It Takes after we’ve made our money to try to stop him from ever acquiring power again.” That’s at least economically defensible.
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Do you really think major media are run by some sort of conspiracy? I sure hope not.
