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throwawaysea
This article noted the controversial decision Twitter made to ban links to the New York Post story on Hunter Biden in October. That’s not the only such incident. Remember when Twitter banned Project Veritas for posting leaked materials (https://reclaimthenet.org/project-veritas-suspended-twitter/), even though they were totally fine with the New York Times posting Trump’s private financial information from illicitly acquired tax returns?

I don’t trust Twitter or the other tech companies to apply these labels and policies in any fair manner anymore. This is just yet another tool in their toolkit to wage their ideological war on their platform.

not_knuth
On a side note: Does anyone know a good, detailed writeup with dates of events etc. of how the word "hacker" was transferred from "hacker culture" (as described in The Jargon File [0]) to the rest of the world and turned into a word with malicious connotation along the way?

[0] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html

jessaustin
This was a long time ago. RTM was called a "hacker" in the headline of a 1988 article [0] about his potential links to the worm that now bears his name. Since the word isn't used in the text of the article, we can't know it was considered a bad thing. Still, the headline seems to speak for itself.

[0] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2531758/portrait-of-an...

not_knuth
Wow! I did not expect it to be that early. I was thinking more early 2000s after the onslaught of web-self-taught teenage "hackers".
paulie_a
Shouldn't that be considered a badge of credibility?

Yes people can make fakes, welcome to thousands of years ago

jessaustin
In their podcast today, the Grayzone reporters noted that this helpful warning created a Streisand effect that pushed their traffic higher than ever. It's a good thing that Twitter are just making up all this shit as they go along. If they conformed to a set of rules, they would have to keep putting this seal of approval on Grayzone's best tweets.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/25/as-leaks-expose-uk-op-to-...