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eightysixfour | karma 3289 | avg karma 4.54 · 2021-01-10 15:49:22+00:00

If China sent it as a statement to every newspaper and television channel in the US, do you think they should be required to run it as a story?

free_rms | karma 223 | avg karma 0.46 · 2021-01-10 17:25:59+00:00

Terrible analogy, newspapers and stations have limited space for what they cover and it's an editorial decision to choose to run something over something else.

Twitter could just let the tweet exist for people who personally choose to follow the Chinese US embassy at no cost to other tweets. I mean, it's from a national government's embassy, their angle is not hidden at all.

Now they open themselves up to all sorts of questions, are they softer on the Saudis? On Israel?

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alisonkisk | karma 500 | avg karma 0.24 · 2021-01-10 20:14:50

Why is US company Twitter obligated to perform postal services for a foreign government?

free_rms | karma 223 | avg karma 0.46 · 2021-01-10 22:43:55+00:00

It's more effort to ban a post than to just leave it up.

Getting into picking and choosing which foreign governments are allowed to post, and which messages they'll countenance, at additional expenses for their mod team? Twitter has a foreign policy?

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