The Streisand Effect encoded as a Term of Service [0][1].
As of 2:22 PM Pacific Time:
> What is a violation of this policy?
> At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms, such as linking out (i.e. using URLs) to any of the below platforms on Twitter, or providing your handle without a URL:
> Prohibited platforms:
> Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Post and Nostr
> 3rd-party social media link aggregators such as linktr.ee, lnk.bio
Examples:
> “follow me @username on Instagram”
> “username@mastodon.social”
> “check out my profile on Facebook - facebook.com/username”
1) Why are only specific social media platforms banned, but the entire category of “3rd-party social media link aggregators”?
Where is Reddit? Where is HN (this forum)? Where is Sina Weibo [2]? Where is VK [3]? Where is Parler [4]?
2) What would happen if different third party websites were used as link aggregators? This could be an individual website’s “Links”/“Socials”/“Contact Us” page, or something like an HN/GitHub/LinkedIn/etc profile page. What about the *chans?
3) What about discussion happening via different text media like Slack/Discord/IRC and the text descriptions in YouTube and TikTok videos?
4) What about text embedded as part of the video itself?
5) What about websites constructed with easy-to-guess login and password or a series of captchas?
Personal observation/feeling:
This entire situation seems like an arms race between the richest troll playing whack-a-mole against the rest of the Internet where the moral and/or legal high ground shifts between the parties each round.
As of 2:22 PM Pacific Time:
> What is a violation of this policy?
> At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms, such as linking out (i.e. using URLs) to any of the below platforms on Twitter, or providing your handle without a URL:
> Prohibited platforms:
> Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Post and Nostr > 3rd-party social media link aggregators such as linktr.ee, lnk.bio Examples:
> “follow me @username on Instagram” > “username@mastodon.social” > “check out my profile on Facebook - facebook.com/username”
1) Why are only specific social media platforms banned, but the entire category of “3rd-party social media link aggregators”?
Where is Reddit? Where is HN (this forum)? Where is Sina Weibo [2]? Where is VK [3]? Where is Parler [4]?
2) What would happen if different third party websites were used as link aggregators? This could be an individual website’s “Links”/“Socials”/“Contact Us” page, or something like an HN/GitHub/LinkedIn/etc profile page. What about the *chans?
3) What about discussion happening via different text media like Slack/Discord/IRC and the text descriptions in YouTube and TikTok videos?
4) What about text embedded as part of the video itself?
5) What about websites constructed with easy-to-guess login and password or a series of captchas?
Personal observation/feeling:
This entire situation seems like an arms race between the richest troll playing whack-a-mole against the rest of the Internet where the moral and/or legal high ground shifts between the parties each round.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_service
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_service
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Weibo
[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VK_(service)
[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler