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Plot twist: #Twitter labeling or otherwise flagging Trump’s tweets is “editorial conduct” & may make the platform vulnerable to lawsuits & other punitive federal restrictions via Executive Irder—i.e., Trump lashing out. (HT @schachin)

About Section 230:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_2…
❝…it signals the beginning of an all-out war between Trump and any platform that tries to fact-check him.❞

theverge.com/platform/amp/2…
This is gold…
Notable, from @jess_miers:

More lawyerly details with analysis here on Trump’s Executive Order on Section 230 and Twitter. Via @neil_neilzone, an Internet, telecoms & tech lawyer.

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Man, is Trump’s war on Twitter escalating, or what?
Well, my @muckrackdaily email sure enlightened me here. Going one step further to understand Twitter’s decision and Trump’s language of choice, NBC News’ Rebecca Shabad answered the question: Where does the phrase 'When the looting starts, the shooting starts' come from? “Who else thought ‘When the looting starts the shooting starts’ sounded familiar? Here is NBC's story on how it was used by a Southern Police chief during civil rights unrest,” Cecilia Kang said. Dean Obediallah tweeted, “This is a quote from a White Southern police chief from the 1960s who defended Police brutality. This is the man Trump is quoting during protests opposing police brutality.” “The police chief...also said that ‘we don't mind being accused of police brutality,’” Alana Horowitz Satlin added. “How sad for the President of the United States to repeatedly bring back a terrible chapter in American history,” Donna Brazile concluded.
No kidding. Hope Twitter doesn’t blink.

❝Twitter’s position is precarious.❞—@kateconger

nytimes.com/2020/05/30/tec…
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An interesting #accessibility development from Twitter: image alt text now exceeds the Tweet character limit by more than 3.5x: 1K characters! Finally you can describe images & GIFs in glorious detail—and hide your ranting such that only users with assistive devices will notice!
Here is a test of the 1000 character limit Twitter has introduced to the alt description of attached images.

I’ve included the text in the attached image in case you can’t view it on your device. As you can see, I have questions!

#twitter #accessibility Hi there, it's me, Rich Tatum! And this is the alt description containing the very text of the image I have screen captured and attached. That’s pretty meta, isn’t it? I guess that’s probably the most useful use case I can imagine: actually making sure that meme and text images can be fully transcribed into the alt description. I have no idea why I am writing such a long descriptive alt text for this image, other than I am testing out the massive 1,000 character limit. And I have quite a few more characters to go! Because at the end of this sentence, including the period, I will have clocked only 628 characters in total. Wow! Questions: Is the alt searchable on Twitter? I’ve never noticed alt text on the mobile app. How can we view them? If there is inflammatory, dangerous, hurtful text in the alt text, will the algorithms flag it? Will we be able to report abusive alt texts? What kinds of abuses would be actionable? Will Google/Bing index the text? Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
Questions: Is the alt searchable on Twitter? I’ve never noticed alt text on the mobile app. How can we view them? If there is inflammatory, dangerous, hurtful text in the alt text, will the algorithms flag it?

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Google introduces the core (for now) Web Vitals for measuring page speed/performance.

web.dev/vitals/ Text Shot: Web Vitals is an initiative by Google to provide unified guidance for quality signals that are essential to delivering a great user experience on the web.
❝You can also report on each of the Core Web Vitals without writing any code using the Web Vitals Chrome Extension. This extension uses the web-vitals library to measure each of these metrics and display them to users as they browse the web.❞ #SEO

github.com/GoogleChrome/w…
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