Critic of NBC's coverage suspended from Twitter
Guy Adams is The Independent's Los Angeles bureau chief and he has not been shy in his critiques of NBC's coverage of the Olympics. In fact, he has consistently claimed that the network is screwing things up at every turn through his Twitter account.
Now Adams has had his Twitter account suspended.
A Twitter staffer told Adams his account was suspended because he included the corporate email address for Gary Zenkel, the NBC exec in charge of the company's Olympics coverage.
But as Deadspin pointed out earlier, Twitter isn't exactly an impartial party here, as the company has teamed up with NBC to provide additional coverage for the Olympics.
NBC has admitted that it filed the original complaint against Adams and it appears the "rule" he broke about "posting an individual's private information" doesn't actually exist. Under Twitter's listed guidelines posting "non-public, personal email addresses" is a violation, but Zenkel's email is a public, corporate address.
Adams has ripped NBC's handling of the Games, its lack of live coverage, and he even excoriated anchor Matt Lauer at one point. It's understandable that NBC wasn't a big fan of his Twitter account.
But this whole scenario is fishy, especially when you consider that Twitter has always been a way for people to express their feelings in a public forum. Shutting down someone like Adams - who was just giving his opinion - is a really bad precedent for a social media site like Twitter to set.
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I guess Twitt-Er; takes its lead from RUDOLPH HESS. He did not care for the truth either.
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So, is this the way things are going to be from now on? Twitter is a public forum where anyone is suppose to be able to speak their mind......., that is, until the corporation that owns them tells them differently. Does this mean, that Twitter will close out anyones account, when they say anything bad about corporate? Hey NBC, are you going to add that into the Twitter rules for those who use it, that they can speak their minds about anything as long as it's not about NBC? And if they do, they get a suspention of service? I gather NBC doesn't like it when people have a negative opinion about them. Well NBC, get use to it, just because you believe youselves to be right all of the time, doesn't make it so, and as time goes by, more and more people will understand that fact and post about it in other places. And one more thing NBC, just because the justice system was bought off so that they would declare corporations are human, that doesn't make that lie the truth, just keep that in mind.
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I have not watched the olympics.I started watching it and all I heard was Kate this and kate that.i did not know kate was rideing a horse.Then we had Mitt Romney.These people are looking to get their two minutes of fame.Imuch rather watch the four legged animals.I am sick and tire of politics.Even god is sick of these people.Then there was half dead Chaney running his mouth.No tv for me.
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If I could'nt get in to see my child in a event I would be looking to take some heads off.
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Wow Twitter censoring peoples speech because of their own corporate greed. What a bunch of Hypocrites. Twitter is a joke. They should be ashamed.
