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A bank persuaded Twitter to delete my tweets

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10783012

    Bank of America gets Twitter to delete
    journalist joke (arstechnica.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10787478

    A bank persuaded Twitter to delete my
    tweets (businessinsider.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10800948

    BofA gets Twitter to delete journalist's
    tweet (arstechnica.com)

Oops. I tried to search for any previous submissions, but I apparently failed. Oh well, at least this one has some more comments than the other ones.

Indeed - this one has got some traction, whereas the previous ones haven't - good to see.

That's literally the first thing that happens when you "Fight abuse to protect freedom of expression"

https://blog.twitter.com/2015/fighting-abuse-to-protect-free... Hopefully this will help to show Twitter's recent actions in a different light.

It's important to keep people safe. And as we all know, corporations are people.

I never understood why Twitter is preferred over RSS syndication. When you don't own your medium, you don't control your messages.

It's not content producers that prefer Twitter, it's all the users that could never be bothered to setup an RSS reader (or Bloglines or whatever).

Because decentralized social systems don't grow very well, usually owing to lack of ease of use. Twitter, you sign up, plug in the name of some interesting people, and you're done.

(Also, RSS is strictly one way)

Twitter is a single point of consumption where with RSS you should be aware of the feeds to consume or have another site working on integrating RSS and staying up to date with the latests consumption points.

Twitter deletes tweets for almost any complaint, doesn't have to be copyright or state any cognizable theory. They don't notify the original tweeter either.

If someone tweets something you don't like, just complain to Twitter and they'll delete it. I mean, it went out, so in some sense censorship can't happen, and yes I'm aware that people other than Twitter archive tweets. But you can get rid of the tweet for posterity from Twitter's archive with any sort of nonsense complaint, and the tweeter won't even know that it happened, much less that you did it.

Proposal: Mirror your tweets on a blog. Put your blog behind 2 or 3 different CDN's and configure them to "operate offline using cache". Have multiple people tweet your blog.

Apologies if folks already thought of this.

And always use archive.org, archive.is, etc.

Am I wrong, or was the deleted 'tweet' actually the media component that contained a copyrighted Bank of America report?

Even if so, it could be permitted under Fair Use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

"Examples of fair use in United States copyright law include commentary, search engines, criticism, parody, news reporting, research, teaching, library archiving and scholarship. It provides for the legal, unlicensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work under a four-factor balancing test."

The media component was covered under fair use, however.

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