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Twitter blocked sharing of link to Trump advisor's phone number
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IANS | 21 Jun, 2018
Twitter has been accused of engaging in censorship after it suspended
the accounts of some users who tweeted a link to a story that claims to
have a phone number of the person who is believed to be the architect of
the Donald Trump administration's controversial immigration policy.
Twitter's rules against harassment prohibits users from posting private information of others without their express consent.
What
triggered the latest controversy surrounding the microblogging site is a
story titled "Here's Stephen Miller's Cell Phone Number, If You Need
It" published by Gizmodo Media Group-owned news and opinion site
Splinter.
According to a report in CNET, Splinter on Wednesday
tweeted out the story which includes a phone number Splinter says could
put people in touch with Miller.
Twitter users who retweeted the
original tweet found their accounts were being suspended and some users
complained their accounts were being locked not for posting the private
information but rather for pointing to a site that held the
information, the report said.
In a statement on Wednesday,
Twitter was quoted as saying that its rules do not allow publishing
other people's private information without their permission.
"Directly linking to that information" also violates Twitter's rules, the microbloggiing site said.
"Today,
we temporarily blocked accounts that shared this information until they
deleted the Tweet that violated our rules," a Twitter spokesman was
quoted as saying.
"At this time, the number that was previously
being shared is no longer a valid number and, as such, we are no longer
enforcing our policy against individuals Tweeting or linking to that
information," the statement added.
The controversial immigration
policy of the Trump administration until Wednesday enforced separation
of children from parents at the US-Mexico border.
But bowing to public pressure, the US President on Wednesday signed an executive order that reverses the separation policy.
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Samsung service nahi from raha hai
Nitesh kumar | Thu Jun 21 17:06:33 2018
Lock nahi ho raha hai
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