Comment by buyucu
5 days ago
does the reason matter? regardless of whether it is a mistake or or censorship, the end result is the same.
5 days ago
does the reason matter? regardless of whether it is a mistake or or censorship, the end result is the same.
The reason absolutely matter : a mistake can happen to anyone, and be fixed within a short time, while censorship is deliberate and will probably not be fixed
If a 'mistake' keeps happening for two years, then it is realistically not a mistake. This is not Musk!twitter's first 'mistake' of this nature, by a long shot.
Ok, I see what you mean and I agree with you, it would not be a first time a company pulls this kind of trick.
But in this case it's not that the reason does not matter, it's that the reason is censorship/bad faith competition, and is obfuscated behind a mistake
twitter is not anyone. you would expect a company of this size with millions of users to have checks and tests.
Legit question: How would you test something like this? It's not like you can have automated tests with million of random links. And these URLs are certainly not hardcoded.
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