That's hilarious because their filters are sophisticated enough to block archive.is links to the same URL ... but can still be defeated with a query param. Seems like one of these was implemented at Twitter 1.0, and the other at Twitter 2.0.
Well, looks like they finally figured it out - but it's a hacky fix, they're still not using a proper URL parser. Here are some of the ways you can trick badly implemented URL parsers (haven't tested all of them on twitter specifically, but at least a couple do indeed work):
Imagine being an original Twitter employee that's still stuck around. You could ask for a 7-figure salary, and your toughest job would be implementing a regex filter for the JD Vance leak.
The thing about free speech is that everyone has their own criteria of what should or should not be included into it.
When someone talks about "free speech absolutist", one expects they will include everything. No exceptions. After all, that's what the "absolutist" is supposed to be doing here.
If you want to add exceptions to free speech, then you're not an absolutist. You just have the same lame relativist free speech definition as everyone else. Except your criteria is different than the others. Which, I mean, no problem, but at least be honest.
Documents obtained via hacks don't qualify under "free speech" and should be blocked, just like you'd block a list of people's social security numbers obtained via hacking, or secretly-recorded nude/pornographic material (without the subject's knowledge or consent).
Except the indisputable public interest in having information about the person sitting on deck for the most powerful position in the world, as opposed to the prurient interests in seeing leaked nudes.
You mean like the nude photos of hunter biden, stolen from his personal laptop, and shared across twitter without any changes? That sort of free speech?
Ridiculous. He's a VP candidate so these things are definitely in the public's interest and reporters report on ill-gotten documents all the damn time.
As always, it is MOST improper on this website to actually read the article, but this is addressed in the article; Musk was upset when old-Twitter blocked an article containing hacked data. Appears to be a case of ‘free speech’ for me but not for thee.
>home address or physical location information, such as street addresses, GPS coordinates, or other identifying information related to locations that are considered private
> X suspended Ken Klippenstein after he shared the Iranian-hacked dossier on J.D. Vance, which doxed his home addresses, phone numbers, emails, and social security number.
> Ken Klippenstein was temporarily suspended for violating our rules on posting unredacted private personal information, specifically Sen. Vance’s physical addresses and the majority of his Social Security number.
What about Hunter Biden's laptop? This was mentioned as a key reason Elon bought Twitter in the first place. And those documents contained way more sensitive data than the JD Vance one.
I scrolled over the dossier and there nothing significant there, most of it is bunch of things he said, his investments, property, donations, tickets, taxes and so on.
Most of the information can be found online, this is just complied into one PDF file.
Any reader that has only bothered to implement pdf object processing and page rendering. Or just any pdf reader that doesn't have pdf javascript implemented
This is why no major media outlet ran this story when the hackers offered the documents a month or two ago: there's literally nothing in it. It's a standard opposition research report. The Harris campaign has a document just like it on their own Google Drive. It isn't even directionally interesting; it records every line of attack the GOP could imagine Vance facing (they missed "childless cat ladies", though!), and so calls out places where Vance is in line with Trump as well as places he isn't.
All the real stories about this piece are going to be from people like Klippenstein and Musk beclowning themselves over it.
The omission of the "Childless Cat Ladies" comment is arguably pretty newsworthy since it has a bunch of implications, most notably being its the attack line that likely drew blood so to speak (the other a potential campaign blind-spot for how to communicate with female voters, a demographic the Trump campaign has struggled with)
Readit News
Update: I guess someone at Twitter reads Hacker News, because they finally forced me to delete the posts containing those links, a few hours later.
"it's just code after all"
(Could you replace e.g. an "a" with %61 and keep the URL working?)
When someone talks about "free speech absolutist", one expects they will include everything. No exceptions. After all, that's what the "absolutist" is supposed to be doing here.
If you want to add exceptions to free speech, then you're not an absolutist. You just have the same lame relativist free speech definition as everyone else. Except your criteria is different than the others. Which, I mean, no problem, but at least be honest.
That’s fine, block whatever you want. Just don’t whine that others have a different view on what “free speech” means.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-the-jd-vance-dossier
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
> X suspended Ken Klippenstein after he shared the Iranian-hacked dossier on J.D. Vance, which doxed his home addresses, phone numbers, emails, and social security number.
https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1839382777223164033
Official message from X Safety,
> Ken Klippenstein was temporarily suspended for violating our rules on posting unredacted private personal information, specifically Sen. Vance’s physical addresses and the majority of his Social Security number.
https://x.com/Safety/status/1839392663864549688
they also blocked the laptop stories
Most of the information can be found online, this is just complied into one PDF file.
[1] https://github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzone
[2] https://dangerzone.rocks/
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All the real stories about this piece are going to be from people like Klippenstein and Musk beclowning themselves over it.
The dossier doesn't matter. The fact they are blocking it does.
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