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Twitter bans or downgrades people for political reasons all the time. An example of twitter's pettiness; some time before they banned Breitbart's Milo for troll
by wyager 10y ago
Twitter bans or downgrades people for political reasons all the time. An example of twitter's pettiness; some time before they banned Breitbart's Milo for trolling, they removed the "verified" tag from his account. There is no sensible justification for this except that twitter was trying to hurt his credibility/give him a hard time. Regardless of what you think of Milo, that's just silly. Twitter is not at all conservative with (shadow)banning or other trickery. They'll even suppress trending tags that they don't agree with politically.
- danaliv 10y agoTwitter doesn't suppress trends and there's no way in heck they'd go to the trouble to auto-detect when Scott Adams mentions Donald Trump in a Periscope feed. That would require actual engineering effort (aside from being completely insane) which they don't put into stuff like this. When they want to deal with jerkoffs like Milo, the Trust & Safety team handles it, not their engineers.