[gotodengo]

>"we're gonna turn it back on in four weeks"

This is my recurring issue when I see most "changes we're making for the election" posts. Sure this seems like a good step for this election.

Fake news and the destabilization it can bring isn't just an American phenomenon though. Are they going to apply these precautions to elections in Brazil, or Myanmar?

[animationwill]

>> "we're gonna turn it back on in four weeks"

We'll improve our site for 28 days, but the other 47 months of the year we will, uh...

[gnome_chomsky]

It does feel like there have been 48 months this year

[PaulDavisThe1st]

Seen out front of a hotel in Santa Fe recently: "2020 has been longer than a CVS receipt"

[1over137]

For anyone else confused: CVS seems to be a chemist/pharmacy shop in the USA; this is unrelated to CVS (Concurrent Versions System) the software.

[ev1]

For anyone else still confused: CVS is an American retailer that typically issues receipts with additional advertising, bad low-value coupons with paragraphs of exclusions, on the bottom of a receipt. This makes a single-item purchase result in a receipt exceed 2m in length.

[hervature]

Do you live near Jupiter?

[bamboozled]

I think they’re referring to the number of months will the next election.

[bredren]

Many people will stop watering their lawns during a drought. But they usually start up again after it passes.

[panopticon]

I'm not sure if this statement is supportive of Twitter's decision or opposing the practice of not using drought-resistant landscaping.

[bredren]

People do things for themselves that to others appear wrong and unnecessarily self self-serving.

When presented with major societal issues some people are reasonable enough to trim it back until the crisis has subsided.

I think Twitter and Facebook’s coddling enablement of President Trump has been disgusting and both companies have morally bankrupt business models.

But in 2020, you no sooner can demand your neighbor not keep a lush green lawn than you can a social network not run an ad network.

At least this pattern of making the change when it is having its worst impact is better than no change at all.

[waheoo]

So?

[entropicdrifter]

They're not nearly as accountable to those countries' governments

[bamboozled]

Why not ? They sell a product in those countries which is harmful to the democratic process and society overall.