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  1. They've applied these tags to plenty of other tweets, just not the presidents. When outright false information is being disseminated to users on their platform, they are entirely responsible for moderating its content. It's about damn time they finally applied the same moderation to his tweets as well, he's continually been a one off with their policies, hope they continue to tag things easily verified as false. And Communism? lol. No. Twitter is a private service, the government isn't censoring anyone whatsoever in your nutty scenario, how would that be communism? The irony in your statement is that Trump/government wanting to shutdown social media because he doesn't like their opinion and thinks it's misleading, that may be.
    31 points
  2. 30 points
  3. It's about time, but if they are taking a stand they should go all the way and not let the President of the United States continue to peddle lies through its platform on other issues as well, because DJT clearly uses Twitter as one of his "official" means of communication. Or he can **** off to Gab.ai with all the other nazis.
    22 points
  4. Are you serious? Do you understand the definition of the word fact? There is no room for interpretation or bias, he is spreading false information and is now being called out on it. What are you actually ranting about?
    14 points
  5. What a hypocritical dumb ass. Calling out lies and inaccurate statements with a tag is not censoring. What you threatened to do because you were called out IS. Admit that you're wrong Trump and move on ...
    13 points
  6. No, it's not. It's their platform and they can do whatever they want. The President as usual is misleading people regarding mail-in ballots and he needs to be called out on it and they need to do it more often. I wish Facebook had the balls to do the same to him.
    13 points
  7. Add this to #345567554345787654 of stupid crap Trump has said.
    11 points
  8. Like most Conservatives, Trump has a very warped understanding of how free speech works. Getting criticised for saying stupid crap doesn't take away your speech, neither does granting others the right to correct your constant stream of lies, in fact preventing them from doing so would take away their free speech. Conservatives are like a bunch of children that can't hack hearing the word no.
    11 points
  9. "[...] Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices[...] " "We will strongly regulate, or close them down [...]" Seems like silencing again.
    9 points
  10. He is trying to protect the vote, and thus the sovereignty of the electoral system. Are you for real? Ya, right, he's trying to protect the vote! Then how come he has had no issue with mailing in his own vote in the past? This guy is such a moron with his 2nd grade vocabulary that he has made the USA a laughing stock of the world. I can't wait for him to get tossed out of the White House and then face the charges New York and other places want to bring against him!
    9 points
  11. Remember when Republicans argued that companies are free to moderate their platforms when it benefited them? Fun times. Bear in mind that this is still Twitter measuring with 2 sticks. Any other person would long ago have been banned from the platform altogether.
    9 points
  12. It's not okay for a president to spread lies without being called out on it. We need a checks and balance system for social media or we end up in an Orwellian 1984 where the lie becomes the truth and truth becomes the lie.
    8 points
  13. Here is what the conservative new media is not telling you! Fact: Fox News has a history of pro-Trump coverage and has cheerleaders; Hannity, Carlson, and Dobbs Another Fact: Fox News is run by right wing biased conservatives.
    8 points
  14. TIL moderating is communism. Here I thought it had something to do with economics.
    7 points
  15. That's not what they wrote... They said it's "rarely linked" - stop reading things that aren't there to suit your point of view.
    7 points
  16. Wow the United States are increasingly looking like the Dysfunctional United States. So many "never before" being seen. An elected President belittling his country's own electoral system. Who needs Russia and China after that?
    7 points
  17. Trump is always criticizing fake news. He said something that has been repeatedly investigated and repeatedly debunked. It was Fake News. Twitter did not remove the post they simply said it may not be true. What I love is that Twitter saying Oh that may not be true is communism...but a president saying he will shut down media outlets that do not paint him in a favorable light (and not for the first time), is okay? Engaging in debate with your leaders...Communism, shutting down the free press...Patriotic? Do you want a dictionary for Christmas?
    6 points
  18. If the platforms silence conservative voices more often than liberal ones, it's because the conservative ones break rules of common decency more often. You can express whatever opinion you want on things that are a matter of opinion. But when you do the same with facts, that is called lying, and it should rightly be stopped, even in the name of free speech. If Trump wishes to promote a hard-right agenda, and does so with well-verified statements and considered policies, he is welcome to.
    6 points
  19. What Twitter did was flat wrong. They need to cut themselves from being opiniated and do what they are supposed to be doing. Labels, where do they get off putting labels on tweets. The Democrats would have burnt Twitter down it it happened to them. Next thing Twitter will be doing is trying to restrict tweeting to tweets they feel could be false or misleading. Hello, communism!
    6 points
  20. Be a sport and be sure to ask your family members and less tech savvy friends if they're already upgraded to Windows 2004
    6 points
  21. They've applied these tags to plenty of other tweets, just not the presidents. When outright false information is being disseminated to users on their platform, they are entirely responsible for moderating its content. It's about damn time they finally applied the same moderation to his tweets as well, he's continually been a one off with their policies, hope they continue to tag things easily verified as false. And Communism? lol. No. Twitter is a private service, the government isn't censoring anyone whatsoever in your nutty scenario, how would that be communism? The irony in your statement is that Trump/government wanting to shutdown social media because he doesn't like their opinion and thinks it's misleading, that may be. Moreover, Twitter is much like Neowin, Facebook, Instagram, TicTok, Youtube and the rest are not a government entities and all are privately owned. They can set the rules and enforce them. But that's a part of "freedom" some can't seem to grasp.
    5 points
  22. No it's not a fact. Youtube is full of pro alt-right videos.
    5 points
  23. It's no more prone to fraud than other methods of voting. People simply don't go around stealing ballots, en masse, pulling them off mail trucks, or throw them away at processing center. It's just yet another republican conspiracy theory. Ways to further ensure ballots are properly received: - Text message saying their request for a mail in ballot was received - Text message/tracking number when mail in ballot is sent AND delivered to voter - Text message/tracking number when mail in ballot is received by election board My county already has some of this in place, but considering how unmotivated the current senate is in regards to election reforms, it'll never happen nationally. They'd lose yet another talking point that's nothing more than fluff and red meat to their base. Mail-in voting was utilized in my state for the primary, in fact it was the only method of voting. It'll be a hard sell to remove it now that it successfully worked. There were also ballot issues, i.e levies, local elections, etc... Mail-in voting is happening in November, whether Trump and his base like it or not. And it'll be on a large scale. Red states might go ahead and restrict its use. Swing states though... outside of Wisconsin, all signs point to it being a viable option. Wisconsin election board also took a ton of flack for their behavior during the primary, voters were not thrilled that they were being pushed to vote, right at the time when covid was really taking off, all so partisans could make sure their supreme court judges could be voted on. It ended up biting them. If only we had online voting. But that'd get everyone to vote, and well, suppressing the vote is how some people stay elected.
    5 points
  24. Ok, first let's set the ground work: Trump is a habitual liar. The amount of mail-in voting fraud is so minute it probably wouldn't register so it's not a big deal and steps can be taken to secure mail-in voting. While you just highlighted the news organizations sentence, you didn't call out the last sentence, experts; and Trump is no expert. Remember his failed committee looking into voting fraud in 2016, politics/trump-dismantles-voter-fraud-commission-heres-what-the-controversial-group-did?
    5 points
  25. It doesn't work yet. It tells me that there's a new version available and sends me to the website but only 1909 is available there.
    5 points
  26. Maybe they should fact check the BS spewing out of Bidens lying mouth? Dirty creep he is. (P 3 do file). Rub my hairy legs Joe, you roach. I guess this also means Twitter is a publisher and should be treated as such. TRUMP 2020!!!!
    5 points
  27. They should also do it retroactively, would be fun to see like every 2nd tweet have exclamation mark...
    5 points
  28. That's not what "free speech" means. Ugh. January can't get here soon enough.
    5 points
  29. A lie is not a valid "opinion". It's a falsehood. President Pathological Liar has every right to lie over 16,000 times now to the public. Just as every American has the right to point out that he's a pathological liar. The facts are the facts. And everyone is entitled in the US to their opinion of the facts and even to lie about them, as Trump does constantly. But he doesn't get to lie and not be called out on it. Fortunately, he has no power over banning or censoring social media. He's lying about that too, of course.
    4 points
  30. You don’t know how hard we laugh at your clown president in other countries.
    4 points
  31. The amount of mail-in voting fraud is so minute it probably wouldn't register so it's not a big deal and steps can be taken to secure mail-in voting. I am not talking about Trump but about the fact. Trump is not an expert, I admit it. But, who is the expert?. If you look at scientists' facts then there is nothing. Example: I flip a coin (and I won't show it). If Trump says "head!" then maybe he is wrong. The right fact is "we don't know". However, if the "fact" says: "Trump is wrong, it's tail", then it is not only a lie but it also discredits a person in the process. I also admit that science is also fascists because it asks for data and data are (apparently) part of the fascism. 🤨 Maybe it is time to embrace bestiality and ignorance. Trump is a lier, he hates America and its institutions, he trusts the words of dictators BEFORE those who spent their lives protecting and defending America. And worse, he is spineless and he cannot be trusted.
    4 points
  32. Thru the years being a member of your site, I think we've disagreed on maybe.. three things? This sure isn't one of them. Seems what most people don't get, is that Twitter is bound by law not to delete his tweets because they are then part of Congressional record. He deletes them anyways from time to time (but those are easily found)... thus breaking the law. Which he does without question to consequence. He cannot help himself from lying. His narcissistic ego prevents him from doing so. And since he lives in his own world, the rest of us can only sit back and watch that cluster ###### continue to reach lows most only imagine can be reached. It's sad in a way.. but more often than not, immoral and recently given his "Democratic hoax" approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, deadly.
    4 points
  33. I like a bit of a laugh at Trump every now and again, but really, what a complete fanny.
    4 points
  34. Are you serious? Do you understand the definition of the word fact? There is no room for interpretation or bias, he is spreading false information and is now being called out on it. What are you actually ranting about? "Are you serious? Do you understand the definition of the word fact?" No, no he doesn't.
    4 points
  35. Now comes out the truth! Here is what the main stream news media is not telling you! Fact: Twitter exec in charge of effort to fact-check Trump has history of anti-Trump posts. Another Fact: Twitter is ran by a collective of left wing biased liberals.
    4 points
  36. It's not Democrats bias, it's making sure that it's factual. President Trump's is just making social medias appear to be partisan bias when he is dragging down the Republicans.
    4 points
  37. Why is this ###### on Neowin? Stay away from politics, pretty please.
    4 points
  38. About time, well done Twitter
    4 points
  39. So free speechisthat you can spread lies and untruths? No way that is free speech. Nor are accusations that you murdered someone, without providing a shred of evidence. Twitter has placed themselves in a very doubtful position: They act as the 'outlet' of propaganda. And yes, it is a variation on the propaganda in Germany in the 1930-ies: Alternate truths, demonizing and accusations. The world has been there and is letting it happen again. Twitter is letting it happen again.
    4 points
  40. BlizzCon 2020 canceled, possibly returning early next year

    Don't they have phones? They can do this from home just fine.
    4 points
  41. It's not that, they basically censor views they don't agree with and then claim it's hate speech or some other BS just so they can censor it. that's where the core of the problem is. basically you can pretty much do what you want if your views are on the left, but if your on the right they are quick to censor you for next to nothing. Again, Twitter didn't censor Trump. They basically "fact checked" his Tweet and tagged it, no different than what news organization do today when Trump speaks. Trump is fine with fake news labels as long as they never apply to him.
    3 points
  42. It's not that, they basically censor views they don't agree with and then claim it's hate speech or some other BS just so they can censor it. that's where the core of the problem is. basically you can pretty much do what you want if your views are on the left, but if your on the right they are quick to censor you for next to nothing. Again, Twitter didn't censor Trump. They basically "fact checked" his Tweet and tagged it, no different than what news organization do today when Trump speaks.
    3 points
  43. *sigh* No, I suspect we do. We'd be laughing right along with you if it weren't for the fact that the current American condition is just disgraceful instead of amusing. Laugh while you can- Idiots might take over your country some day, too.
    3 points
  44. Like "the right to bare arms" means you can shoot whoever you want? Yeah, American policies and the sacred "ammendments" are broken. May have worked 100 years ago, clearly not now.
    3 points
  45. Why do US politics look like a bad WWE episode? And praising Twitter in this case is a bit silly. Trump should already been banned once, after all the crap he posted. Even before he was president. Remember all the bull he posted about Obama when he was president?
    3 points
  46. I don't really think Facebook is much different to what it was back in 2010. They're still obsessed with knowing everything about you, selling everything about you and it's so big, not even the company itself knows how to fix it.
    3 points
  47. I have already seen 3 articles from other sites about *verified* fraud with mail-in ballots. So, is Twitter STILL going to claim there is no evidence of mail-in voter fraud?
    3 points
  48. Nuke his account for 24 hours and wait for the meltdown.
    3 points
  49. Well I for one am happy to wait until they feel ready. They can't win, if too soon they are wrong, if they wait a bit longer they are at fault as well.
    3 points