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They also could have done the complete opposite. Imagine your life being in the hands of Twitter.


Your life isn’t in the hands of twitter. It’s in the hands of NYPD, an institution designed to protect the public.

While it’s certainly nice to have, we shouldn’t have an expectation that a private business to defend us from the corruption of the police. Like, that’s a much bigger problem that Twitter does or doesn’t do


>It’s in the hands of NYPD, an institution designed to protect the public.

It's not at all designed to protect the public; in the US the police don't even have a legal duty to protect the public. It's designed to enforce the law.


Walgreens and CVS do the opposite with our medical data. They turn it over to police without even a warrant.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/cvs-rite-aid-walgree...

There should be consequences when large service providers fail to protect the rights of their customers. Walgreens/CVS are pretty close to a duopoly.


Sounds like twitter acted more ethically than government department. So I guess I choose twitter.


I mean technically Twitter could have hired a hit man to come after you too. But they didn't. So I don't get the point


I'm afraid I don't get your point either. Hit man?

The police overreached here, and the only thing that protected the victim was, of all things, Twitter.

The police are supposed to be the good guys, but that obviously wasn't the case here. My comment was merely expressing surprise at the irony of the situation.


why has nobody responded to this comment? the OP should yield to this comment




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