On: Twitter didn't act after bomb suspect made threats on its platform

[vorticalbox]

Other than removing the tweet, which they didn't do, what could they have done?

The strain it would out on Twitter and law enforcement investigating every single tweet that contains violence would be too much.

[hoffs → vorticalbox]

Yeah, I don't understand how social networks are at fault here, there's law enforcement that should take care of that...

[stuaxo → vorticalbox]

You can have rules and kick people off.

[nonce725 → vorticalbox]

This.

Twitter is a communications service, not the police.

[craftyguy → nonce725]

You're right, but it's easy to see how they've blurred the line by taking action to ban some high profile individuals from their platform.

[krapp → craftyguy]

What line has been blurred? As a private platform, Twitter has always had the right to ban anyone from their platform for any reason. Doing so isn't acting as an agent of the state or using the state's monopoly on force, even when they're compelled to do so by the law.

[loceng → nonce725]

This is part of society.

The police are an organization meant to "serve & protect."