I don't think this is a situation to hand-wring about access & responsibility. Nothing about the 45 situation is normal. SOP does not apply.
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Replying to @EricaJoy @lizthegrey
One of the most frustrating things about what has happened since November of 2016 is that people continue to behave like things are normal.
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Replying to @EricaJoy @lizthegrey
Nothing about this is normal. A normal world leader does not threaten nuclear war with a social media site. We can't apply the normal rules.
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Replying to @EricaJoy @lizthegrey
But if you want to follow normal rules, what happened was w/in scope of normal rules. CS reps take down accounts all the time.
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Replying to @EricaJoy @lizthegrey
We all knew any CS rep could do an account take down. We trust them to do this. The question becomes why are we now bothered by it?
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Replying to @EricaJoy @lizthegrey
Why are folks suddenly concerned that the normal process of a CS rep involves access and authority to do account take downs?
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Replying to @EricaJoy
Because of going out of way to do it to one specific user. And breakdown of "of course you'll be caught, therefore don't do it" deterrent.
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Replying to @lizthegrey @EricaJoy
I understand why many are happy this happened the way it did. I'm worried it corrupts into other rogue actions, and not just against Trump.
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But Trump isn't every other user, he is fundamentally different, and in any case these abilities *always* existed, evidently. That's key.
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The argument re: slippery slope doesn't really hold, because we have apparently always been on this slope, and it's never been slippery.
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Also
I'm an anarchist.

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