X (Twitter) blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier
X blocked links to a hacked document about JD Vance, leading to journalist Ken Klippenstein's suspension for sharing private information. Other outlets refrained from publishing the hacked content, raising policy concerns.
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X has blocked links to a newsletter containing a hacked document related to JD Vance, a vice presidential candidate for the Trump campaign. The document, allegedly obtained through an Iranian hack, includes personal information about Vance, such as his full name, addresses, and part of his social security number. The journalist who published the newsletter, Ken Klippenstein, has been suspended from the platform for violating rules against sharing unredacted private information. Despite other news outlets receiving information from the hack, they chose not to publish it. X's safety account confirmed Klippenstein's suspension, but did not provide details on why the links to his article are blocked. Attempts by The Verge staff to share the link resulted in error messages indicating the link was deemed potentially harmful. This incident raises questions about X's current policies on hacked materials, especially in light of its previous stance under former management, which had shifted to allow the sharing of such content.
- X has blocked links to a hacked document related to JD Vance.
- Journalist Ken Klippenstein was suspended for sharing unredacted personal information.
- Other news outlets opted not to publish the hacked information.
- Attempts to share Klippenstein's newsletter link resulted in error messages.
- The incident highlights ongoing uncertainties regarding X's policies on hacked materials.
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21 commentsUpdate: I guess someone at Twitter reads Hacker News, because they finally forced me to delete the posts containing those links, a few hours later.
Among others it prohibits sharing:
>home address or physical location information, such as street addresses, GPS coordinates, or other identifying information related to locations that are considered private
Most of the information can be found online, this is just complied into one PDF file.
Duck Sauce - Barbara Streisand
(It's just a really catchy song. And I suspect this block will backfire.)
In last month’s interview with the BBC, Musk said, “the rules in India for what can appear on social media are quite strict, and we can’t go beyond the laws of a country … If we have a choice of either our people go to prison or we comply with the laws, we will comply with the laws.” At another point in the interview, Musk said: “If people of a given country are against a certain type of speech, they should talk to their elected representatives and pass a law to prevent it.”
Twitter, before it was bought by Elon Musk, had a policy regarding hacked materials — but the page is no longer available. A pre-Musk version of the policy, dated 2019, stated that posting or linking to hacked content is prohibited. Under this policy, links to a story by The New York Post about Hunter Biden, the current president’s son, were banned. But in October 2020, Twitter changed its policy to say that it would no longer block hacked materials, after an outcry about how the company had handled the Post story. “Straight blocking of URLs was wrong, and we updated our policy and enforcement to fix,” wrote then-CEO Jack Dorsey.
Musk was one of the people who was unhappy with the decision to ban links to the Post’s story. “Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate,” Musk wrote of the decision on the story in April 2022. He even invited former Rolling Stone pundit Matt Taibbi to examine internal documents showing how Twitter handled the decision. (In the course of tweeting his conclusions, Taibbi exposed the email addresses of Dorsey and Representative Ro Khanna.)
[2]: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/29/tech/elon-musk-twitter-govern...
I think people that take such position care very little about free speech and a lot about hurting people who have different politics than they do. And they are part of what is wrong with the politics today.
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