I saw a lot of otherwise smart people on here ostentatiously dunking on anyone who called deleting years of public history Orwellian. But the distinction between preventing Trump from posting in the future, and pretending like he never posted at all, is extremely important
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I'm sure a full record of the President's tweets exists somewhere off the site already. I'm also sure that only Twitter has the complete picture, including the yuge comment threads, quote tweets, and all the rest of what is ultimately important archival material
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Orwell envisioned a cumbersome system that required hand gardening of archives to keep them in ideological compliance, but in the online world, large portions of history can be deleted or edited by machine. This is a complementary issue to that of censorship or deplatforming
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As someone who pushed hard to get Trump's account closed in 2017, I commend
@jack for finding the most damaging possible way to handle the situation—letting the guy use the site for incitement during his entire term, and then deleting the historical record.Show this thread
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It seems like they’re just preventing them from re-posting it on Twitter, not on a separate platform?
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Yeah this is not as bad as I initially imagined. Twitter ToS generally forbids you from keeping copies of deleted tweets so I was worried they were trying to stop them from posting it elsewhere
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I'm curious whether you tried clicking through any of those links.pic.twitter.com/WkGC6XOCbi
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HEY!
@TWITTER! Our speech is not your property. -
And their servers aren't yours
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