[HN Gopher] EFF: Twitter Has a New Owner. Here's What He Should Do
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EFF: Twitter Has a New Owner. Here's What He Should Do
Author : guerrilla
Score : 21 points
Date : 2022-04-25 20:17 UTC (2 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.eff.org)
| bavell wrote:
| I stopped reading after the first paragraph, couldn't get past
| the obvious slant from the authors.
|
| Genuinely curious, did EFF write a similar article when Bezos
| bought the WP? (I searched but couldn't find anything). I hope so
| because otherwise this is very hypocritical. I'd be glad to be
| wrong on this but I suspect I'm not.
| daveoc64 wrote:
| Why would EFF care about a newspaper?
| bavell wrote:
| Literally the first sentence of the article:
|
| > Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter highlights the risks to
| human rights and personal safety when any single person has
| complete control over policies affecting almost 400 million
| users.
|
| Doesn't this apply to Bezos and WP?
|
| You could argue WP doesn't have the same reach in terms of
| raw numbers which is fair but I'd argue both their audiences
| have a lot of power and the overall point made by EFF applies
| in both cases.
| wbsss4412 wrote:
| WP is neither of the same magnitude, nor is it the similar
| in kind. WP is not nor was it ever a platform in the sense
| that Twitter is.
| MattRix wrote:
| In what way is it hypocritical? Surely you don't believe they
| have to have an article about every media takeover before
| writing about this one.
| bavell wrote:
| No, I certainly don't believe that. But if they report on one
| billionaire buying a major media platform / outlet, shouldn't
| they do it for the others? I mean, it's not like this stuff
| happens everyday.
| sha256sum wrote:
| The EFF is the Electronic Frontier Foundation. From their
| homepage: "The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy,
| free speech, and innovation." So technology, privacy... not
| really newspapers. You might be thinking of the ACLU?
| twoxproblematic wrote:
| bavell wrote:
| Please see my reply to a sibling comment w.r.t. newspapers
| mc32 wrote:
| DiabloD3 wrote:
| EFF pays attention to when screaming into the void isn't
| helpful.
| newbamboo wrote:
| Et Tu EFF? Sigh. I remember when they supported open source.
| Won't give them my support going forward. At least rms is still
| alive and kicking.
| ncmncm wrote:
| They don't need it if they get Elon on board.
|
| But they won't. To get out the value he poured in, he will need
| to run it the way Murdoch runs Fox News, the WSJ, and lots
| else. Twitter is a bigger megaphone than even the Murdoch
| empire.
| xhkkffbf wrote:
| Two years ago, I personally complained to EFF folks that I knew
| about the censorship of Twitter users like the NY Post. They
| said nothing. They seemed to have chosen sides. Long ago they
| cared about censorship and free speech. Now I just don't know.
| type0 wrote:
| I noticed it as well, they were slowly sliding in hopes no
| one would notice, when did EFF became ideological?
| [deleted]
| tempnow987 wrote:
| Ironic seeing this from the EFF. This is after we had CORPORATE
| control of twitter (which they apparently applaud) that provided
| us with endless spam / scam bots and tons of crap.
|
| I don't doubt Musk poses critical threats to the old way of doing
| things. Does EFF get a bunch of corporate type sponsorship? This
| is such a weird read.
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