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Twitter’s previous enforcement actions against Trump’s tweets had been grounded in company policies against voting misinformation and glorification of violence. Here, Twitter concludes there is no such violation. — PolitiTweet.org

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To close the loop on this, Twitter spokesperson @katieniederee tells me that the tweet in question doesn’t violate Twitter’s rules. — PolitiTweet.org

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The UK is about to have gone two whole months running on renewable energy alone: https://t.co/udFpSo7nch — PolitiTweet.org

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So… what does Twitter do with this one? — PolitiTweet.org

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Oops. https://t.co/g1wfdoIIko — PolitiTweet.org

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Facebook’s statement: https://t.co/wSHBe1br4V — PolitiTweet.org

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Facebook spokesman @andymstone tells me that, as on Twitter, this video from the Trump campaign has been removed over a copyright claim. https://t.co/BuaX4ByFaw — PolitiTweet.org

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The question he was really being asked was, “Would Trump’s posts have been considered a violation of the rules if they’d been posted to LinkedIn?” When I restated it that way to LinkedIn, I was given the statement and referred to LinkedIn’s policy on violence, which reads: https://t.co/bndzh8drJr — PolitiTweet.org

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But Lawit also carefully avoided answering the actual question. His response amounts to “We have rules that prohibit certain content. Content that violates the rules will be prohibited.” It’s circular. — PolitiTweet.org

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In saying they make no distinction between politicians and normal people, LinkedIn is implicitly making a jab at Facebook, which has been much criticized by civil rights groups for holding politicians to a lower standard than regular users. — PolitiTweet.org

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LinkedIn doesn’t dispute what’s in the audio, and in a statement, spokesperson Nicole Leverich said: “We have clear policies and apply them consistently for everyone.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Lawit was responding to a question about how the company might respond if someone like Trump were to post what he did on Facebook or Twitter. — PolitiTweet.org

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We’ve obtained leaked audio of a LinkedIn all-hands meeting, in which General Counsel Blake Lawit is heard saying the platform doesn’t distinguish between politicians and regular users, and that it won’t hesitate to “restrict speech” that runs afoul of its policies. He said: https://t.co/whTssD8fbA — PolitiTweet.org

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Earlier in the week, Huffman had been criticized by former reddit CEO @ekp over r/the_donald: https://t.co/SQl7Ibxic7 — PolitiTweet.org

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.@reddit CEO Steve Huffman acknowledges that “we should have quarantined [r/the_donald] sooner,” in a longer blog post about needing to accept responsibility and the work ahead: https://t.co/BYVLih62X5 — PolitiTweet.org

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The Facebook employee who quit over Zuckerberg’s handling of Trump’s posts tells ⁦@donie⁩ what he thinks of Zuck’s call: “He made the decision and then tried to find some way to connect it to principle, because that was convenient for him.” https://t.co/obU8Fzu3S5 — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattSepara Every Starfleet captain deserves a chance to be good, just as every admiral almost invariably turns out to be craven and corrupt. — PolitiTweet.org

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The series would wrestle with extremely relevant themes about the nature of violence, and its relationship to power… https://t.co/0ykNGxKJGS — PolitiTweet.org

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But a story like this gives you 1) a glimpse at the Mirror Universe from the common person’s perspective, which we’ve never really seen; and 2) spends the rest of the time on what’s happening on board the Buran. — PolitiTweet.org

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On the whole, I’m skeptical of Trek shows that spend too much time in the Mirror Universe. I’m not a huge fan of the way Discovery implemented it. — PolitiTweet.org

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Maybe this leads to a second season, maybe not. But it’s a self-contained story that lets Isaacs play the honorable Starfleet captain he should’ve been allowed to play from the start. — PolitiTweet.org

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In the event, the Buran emerges victorious, but not without great cost. Prime Lorca sacrifces himself and evacuates the remaining crew, who commit to doing what they can to make the Terran Empire a more just and peaceful society. — PolitiTweet.org

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Prime Lorca meets with his crew, gives a stirring ethical monologue, and persuades everyone to re-unite in the name of Starfleet’s highest values. And then they fight the Terran Empire in a space battle, the only space battle ever to be shown in this series. — PolitiTweet.org

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But since we know Mirror Lorca is already in the Prime Universe telling everyone the Buran is dead, I think the only way this ends is classically Star Trek. — PolitiTweet.org

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There are any number of ways you could resolve this. Maybe Lorca evacuates what’s left of his loyal crew and they scatter, while he faces down the Terrans alone. Or maybe the Buran’s friends come in to save the day with an escape plan back to the Prime Universe. — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s at this point, near the end of the series, that the worst happens. Somehow, the Terran Empire has found out about the Buran. Maybe one of the ship’s new friends sold them out? Perhaps there’s an Imperial sympathizer among the crew? Either way, the game is up. — PolitiTweet.org

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Prime Lorca and his crew struggle to keep from losing themselves in the Mirror Universe’s Hobbesian worldview, and must fight to hang onto that which makes them Starfleet. This tension leads to a mutiny, and an attempt on Lorca’s life (which would be SOP on a Terran vessel). — PolitiTweet.org

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Unfortunately, it turns out that condoning brutality has… unintended side effects. Some of the crew find they *like* operating this way, and have now been enabled — nay, encouraged — to act abusively toward their fellow crewmates with no repercussions. Power is everything. — PolitiTweet.org

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But rather than turn them in, the Buran’s new friends agree to help find ways to get the ship home. In the meantime, the Buran has to blend in with the Mirror Universe. As with the USS Discovery, the crew changes uniforms and adopts more violent mannerisms (at least in public). — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Some of these downtrodden folk quickly figure out there’s something… different about Prime Lorca. He’s too compassionate to be of the Mirror Universe. They soon discover the truth, much to Lorca's horror and that of his crew. Surely they’re doomed now that the secret is out. — PolitiTweet.org