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There's a difference between banning an account for TOS violations and complying with a legal order to unmask an anonymous user to a law enforcement agency. Not
by hsod 10y ago
There's a difference between banning an account for TOS violations and complying with a legal order to unmask an anonymous user to a law enforcement agency. Not sure why you would try and conflate them
- abraves10001 10y agoShutting down an account != revealing personal information, either.
- brazzledazzle 10y agoThe conflation between the two is happening throughout the comments for this story. It would take such a complete misunderstanding that I can't help but think these people aren't actually confusing two fundamentally different things and are just biased to the point that they can't think critically and are reaching for anything no matter how ridiculous to paint Twitter in a bad light. But perhaps I'm missing something that's obvious from their perspective.
- ursus_bonum 10y agoThis precisely. What is going on in here? This story has nothing to do with Twitter banning certain accounts, so why is half the discussion about that?
- mikeyouse 10y agoBecause much of politics is circular and virtue signaling is just as important to the libertarian-leaning HN population as it is to the 'snowflakes' that they loathe.