Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Twitter also censored Progress New York's services app

  

Progress New York

 The Twitter social media giant has censored the C’est Vrai app, an action that suspends the ability of the Web application from delivering programmable tweets over the Twitter service. The action by Twitter followed its demand to control the content of tweets delivered by the C’est Vrai app.

The C’est Vrai app is a multi-faceted, computer-assisted tool that provides research and information services to Progress New York. The dispute focused on recent content that the C’est Vrai app has been delivering, namely, the location of certain utility outages taking place at the apartment complexes of the New York City Housing Authority, or NYCHA. Twitter’s restriction prevents the C’est Vrai app from continuing to deliver such content, which was being served in the public interest.

Twitter had objected to the inclusion of the Twitter handles of public officials, in whose districts the apartment complexes were located, respectively. In response, Progress New York described that officials were only tagged for outages in their district and noted that several public officials had acknowledged the C’est Vrai tweets in some form without complaint, including, but not limited to, Borough President James Oddo (R-Staten Island) and New York City Councilmembers Steven Matteo (R-Staten Island), Carlos Menchaca (D-Brooklyn), and Helen Rosenthal (D-Manhattan).

This was not Twitter’s first action against the C’est Vrai app, and the number of censorship acts by Twitter are increasing, leading to the filing of Federal complaints, for example.

The restriction by Twitter began on 23 September, when the last programmable tweet was published by the C’est Vrai app. Despite arguments submitted by Progress New York in explanation for how the C’est Vrai app programs tweets, Twitter summarily objected to the use of public officials’ tags, writing, “We can only consider a request to reactivate your app after you agree to stop this behavior.” Because Progress New York interpreted Twitter’s response as extortious, Progress New York would not respond to a criminal threat that was intent on undermining Progress New York’s constitutional right to operate a free press. As a result, Progress New York replied, in relevant part, to Twitter, “Progress New York is a news organisation. Regrettably, this is not the first time we have faced extortion or attempts at extortion. We don’t respond to extortion or attempts at extortion.”

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cruz just caught Dorsey in a lie under oath. Don’t expect anything to happen though.

Anonymous said...

They are done. People need to take action, leave the corrupt social media platforms asap.
Is not Senate's job to regulate them. It is up to US!
All of them are selling personal information and data you are generating.

Some alternatives - not recommendations, do your research and move on!

https://www.theorganicprepper.com/social-media-alternatives/


Countervail said...

Wait, you mean an unsourced, unverifiable media outlet, posting verifiably untrue stories got banned by a private social media network?

What's the world coming to when we can spread lies and misinformation?

Anonymous said...

Who can feel sorry for the sorry ass Americans who fall prey to these First Amendment pirates. Find a less dependent way to communicate. I don't use twitter or facebook, and I don't miss them.

Anonymous said...

Corruption is OK.

At least according to Creeper.

https://youtu.be/2nmzvy2FrgQ

Is it OK with Twitter, Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft? Seems yes.

The more corrupt the easier the blackmail.

You see if you are in the club George Carlin was talking about, everything goes.

Is about time to put an end to this regardless of your political affiliation.

Anonymous said...

Countervail said... A lot of dumb stuff

Nice now do the Steele dossier Trumps tax returns, Trump at Normandy...

Anonymous said...

Nice now do the Steele dossier Trumps tax returns, Trump at Normandy...

Your point is?

BoredWithFascists said...

I’m outraged!

Anonymous said...

Man, you can't even trust the Weather Channel (IBM - ex-CEO Ginny Rometty CHICOM lapdog).

https://twitter.com/i/status/1321620994830798850

https://twitter.com/i/status/1040678572262916096

Global Climate change huh? Scamsters.