Comment by Yoric
1 year ago
I remember browsing through the Twitter Files and finding nothing interesting in them.
Yes, all social media have open channels with law enforcement. That's because social media have legal obligations and when someone comes to a moderator claiming to be a law enforcement officer working on a kidnapping or preventing a terrorist attack and needing time-sensitive help to save lives, you don't want the moderator to have to guess whether that's a real emergency or a hoax.
It's... not a secret. If you live in a democracy, you can quickly find out the name of these channels, they have websites.
Source: I've been part of a moderation team. Not on something that large, though.
>they have websites
That's interesting, can you link to one?
Google's, for example, is LERS. https://lers.google.com
Upvoted. I'd hazard that--
"LERS is a system in which a verified law enforcement agent can securely submit a legal request for user data, view the status of the submitted request, and download the response submitted by Google.
If you are a sworn law enforcement agent or other government official who is authorized to issue legal process in connection with an official investigation, you may submit your request through this system."
--is not the height of transparency, though.
In France, https://www.internet-signalement.gouv.fr/PharosS1/ .
This appears to be for private citizens to report illegal content?
You may not have read enough. It went way beyond law enforcement which would have been fine and legal. People were censored for talking about dangers of vaccines, war with Russia, and whatever the administration, FBI, or other government agencies determined to be malinformation. The impact of this censorship is still being felt to this day. People were misinformed about the vaccine and the war causing the deaths of millions of people. If people understood that Ukraine had no chance of defeating Russia or that the largely untested vaccine was not safe, many people could still be alive today.
> or that the largely untested vaccine was not safe
At this point, I think enough of us have lived through being vaccinated that this canard fails to hold water.
(Nothing is 100% safe, and the deaths due to vaccine reaction were tragic. The vaccine was orders of magnitude safer than COVID ripping through the population unchecked).
Could you point me to the source?