General Discussion

It should however, be contextualized, as part of a discussion. The problem I have with ANY content from external sites, is not the content itself, but that often the person posting offers NOTHING in terms of WHY they are posting it. They just plop it down without asking any questions, making any commentary, etc...

So my issue is not necessarily the content, but the posters who don't take the time to put anything behind the external information they bring in, no matter what the source. The TOS says that we shouldn't post right wing hate content, to which I largely agree. However, even the TOS allows for putting up right wing sites or stories if it is properly contextualized.

If I found a story on Breitbart that discussed right wingers new proposal to privatize Social Security, I could post it with commentary such as, "I found this story about how right wingers are starting to formulate a new argument around privatizing Social Security. I think that this new plan is ridiculous but dangerous, what do you all think?" I might even give my reasons why I think the plan was "ridiculous and dangerous" in the opening post.

The point is, I don't think that DU should remove Twitter Content, but the person who posts the content has an obligation to contextualize it for discussion with more than... "Posting this without comment" or some other such nonsense.