[HN Gopher] Twitter's rules and policies now forbid live locatio...
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       Twitter's rules and policies now forbid live location information
       sharing
        
       Author : erlich
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2022-12-14 22:25 UTC (35 minutes ago)
        
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       | rvz wrote:
       | Just as before [0], a 'private platform' doing 'private platform
       | things'.
       | 
       | As expected; by a private platform.
       | 
       | [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30057207
        
       | greggarious wrote:
       | How are we going to define "live"? If the data is five seconds
       | old? Five minutes? Five hours? How far between measurements can
       | we share? Does this policy apply to everyone, or just nonpublic
       | figures?
       | 
       | Can someone provide a citation that doesn't require me to enable
       | Javascript to answer these questions, if they are addressed in
       | the policy?
       | 
       | I spent good money on a Bellingcat workshop and now some of those
       | skills are apparently useless, though to be fair the example we
       | used in class was Jeffrey Epstein's plane, not Elon's IIRC.
       | 
       | (I browse HN via Tor with JS off for "opsec")
        
         | badwolf wrote:
         | > We define "live" as real-time and/or same-day information
         | where there is potential that the individual could still be at
         | the named location.
        
           | DiNovi wrote:
           | so celebrity sightings are now illegal, lol
        
       | anigbrowl wrote:
       | Hey, check this out - it seems we have always been at war with
       | Eastasia!
        
       | Avshalom wrote:
       | https://mobile.twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1603151698570...
       | 
       | They also seem to be banning photos of other people, unless they
       | (Twitter) feel like it?
        
       | excerionsforte wrote:
       | So if I'm a conference and I share video of public individuals
       | while at that conference that would violate the rules just
       | because they are at the conference. Sounds like a great policy
       | alright O_o.
        
       | DiNovi wrote:
       | i have to wonder if you staid on at twitter because you believed
       | in free speech what you make of being forced to quickly engineer
       | a policy of censorship like this.
        
       | erlich wrote:
       | _Owner of Twitter makes changes to policy that everyone kind of
       | agrees with but they are still angry at him for doing it._
        
         | Ztynovovk wrote:
         | "Everyone kind of agrees with"
         | 
         | That's a broad claim yeah?
         | 
         | Data to support that claim?
        
         | optionalsquid wrote:
         | It seems to me that it can only be a matter of time before
         | regular, every-day news reporting gets actioned based on these
         | terms. They are that broad.
        
         | DiNovi wrote:
         | this policy makes saying something like "the president will
         | address congress at 8pm from the rose garden" or "elon is at
         | the chapelle show" bannable. it it not something most people
         | should agree with
        
       | _hello_hn_ wrote:
       | Unviewable for me. Can someone post content/screenshot here? Is
       | it a recent change or something a few years old?
        
         | badwolf wrote:
         | Updated today: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-
         | policies/personal-info...
         | 
         | What's changed: added several references to banning people's
         | location, linking to sites that can show a flight path, or show
         | where a person is.
         | 
         |  _We define "live" as real-time and /or same-day information
         | where there is potential that the individual could still be at
         | the named location._
        
           | _hello_hn_ wrote:
           | Aside from them being explicit about flights, does this mean
           | that those Jet accounts were breaking TOS guidelines for some
           | time now?
        
             | badwolf wrote:
             | They're breaking ToS as of today, when this was updated.
        
       | tedunangst wrote:
       | Note that this policy also bans posting "Elon Musk just got booed
       | at the comedy club." Nice broad policy for selective enforcement.
        
       | ElevenLathe wrote:
       | This has the nice "benefit" of also making Twitter useless as
       | real-time organizing tool ("We're at City Hall demonstrating
       | against the new ordinance. Come on down.").
        
         | version_five wrote:
         | That's not what the policy says, it's about sharing someone
         | else's location without their permission or when they don't
         | want you to
         | 
         | I can see a grey area for "{$speaker,$performer} now taking the
         | stage at {$conference,$music_festival}". Particularly if its
         | somehow a surprise
        
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