Thank you!" Twitter determined that that message violates its rules "about glorifying violence," and so it asks users to click through if they want to see the tweet. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. "Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. "These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won't let that happen," wrote Trump. Today, the service went a step further with a presidential tweet about the violence and looting that broke out Minneapolis during a demonstration against the police killing of George Floyd. (Even in private contexts, political speech has always been the most-protected sort of expression.) (Twitter) Labeling the president's tweet in this way was clearly a middle-finger gesture to the president, less because of the specific content in a given tweet and more because of who the author is and the overtly political nature of the speech. Twitter had announced earlier in the month it would label tweets it thought were misleading or wrong about the novel coronavirus and other topics. When it comes to the immediate cause of action, Twitter didn't delete or ban the president's message but instead flagged it with a fact-check message. That's a feature, not a bug, of online discourse. But the first thing to note is that this can all be true and still be perfectly legal. We'll get to some technical details in a moment. Tens of thousands of Americans have reported, among other troubling behaviors, online platforms "flagging" content as inappropriate, even though it does not violate any stated terms of service making unannounced and unexplained changes to company policies that have the effect of disfavoring certain viewpoints and deleting content and entire accounts with no warning, no rationale, and no recourse.
Online platforms are engaging in selective censorship that is harming our national discourse. After Twitter annotated his comments about mail-in voting and fraud, President Donald Trump responded yesterday with an " Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship." As with many official announcements, the headline is misleading: The order is in fact about creating, not preventing, online censorship.
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