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> those rules, exactly how you have stated them, can be--and are--used to clamp down on valid political speech. As far as I can tell Twitter has not “clamped d
by jacobolus 7y ago
> those rules, exactly how you have stated them, can be--and are--used to clamp down on valid political speech.
As far as I can tell Twitter has not “clamped down on valid political speech”, but only on targeted harassment, threats, and so on.
You are complaining that supporting a racist worldview gets someone called out as a racist by other users of the site. But that’s expected and healthy discourse for a democracy. There’s nothing in Twitter’s terms of service that says people can’t make fun of someone or call them racist.
This is entirely different from getting banned by the platform for e.g. inciting violence.
- zaroth 7y agoClaiming that a right-leaning political worldview is racist is a nasty ploy, it’s slander to suppress a dissenting opinion. It’s a dodge from someone unwilling or unable to defend their position by engaging in meaningful debate. However, repeated degrading attacks against someone are against Twitter policy. > Repeated and/or non-consensual slurs, epithets, racist and sexist tropes, or other content that degrades someone. We prohibit targeting individuals with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category. When these policies are applied with an uneven hand, they betray the political bias of those applying the policies.