[michaelwww]

> What exactly is he supposed to do?

When Twitter is flooded with threats of violence and calls to form mobs will he just do nothing? Is that what you are suggesting? He can take the site dark if he wants and he may have to.

[RobotToaster]

Isn't it the job of the police/FBI to do something in that situation? Why are we expecting corporations to be a private police force, judge, jury, and executioner?

[michaelwww]

If you owned Twitter and the site was suddenly flooded with calls to attack election officials and raid election offices what would you do? You'd probably meet with your lawyers and find out what kind of liability you had, then you'd field calls from advertisers saying they are all leaving unless you stop it. You'd also field calls from all your friends telling you that you need to stop it. Then you'd go for a walk and contemplate how you feel about people using your site to facilitate armed rebellion. Then you'd figure out how much money you were willing to lose over doing it your way. The most sensible thing to do at the point is pull the plug for a few weeks for "technical issues related to the purchase' and go home and get a good nights sleep.

[RobotToaster]

I'd do exactly what I would do if I saw someone threatening someone in real life, call the police and give them all the information I had. Twitter has dates and IP's, in a lot of cases that's as good as an address.

Pulling the plug would be the easy way out, and would stop people incriminating themselves. Worse case scenario it drives people stupid enough to use a public un-encrypted network to plan a crime onto a secure encrypted network.

[alwillis]

Twitter has dates and IP's, in a lot of cases that's as good as an address.

At this point, I can’t put anything past Elon.

The way the texts between Secret Service personnel went missing, even after congressional requests to preserve documents and data, if Twitter becomes the headquarters for seditionists, disinformation and threats of violence that impacts the outcome of which party controls Congress, don’t be surprised if tweets go missing…

[dd36]

Not policing content would destroy Twitter.

[x86_64Ubuntu]

Expecting something like Twitter to moderate it's content doesn't mean we expect corporations to be a police force, judge, jury and executioner.

[etchalon]

Because they could.

When you see someone getting robbed on the street, you can chose to do nothing.

But a lot of people would think you're morally deficient for doing nothing.

And a lot of people would do something in that situation.

[BeetleB]

Yes - they can clamp down on channels that are used to incite violence.