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As you conclude , neither was banned. As such no conclusions can be drawn about the biases or lack of it at Twitter based on that evidence. Not sure why you the
by mnd999 7y ago
As you conclude , neither was banned. As such no conclusions can be drawn about the biases or lack of it at Twitter based on that evidence. Not sure why you then go on to do so.
- logicallee 7y agoLet's keep this civil. You are 100% correct that my comment did not show any bias at Twitter, as I referred to something that did not occur. Instead I appealed to the reader's intuition about a counterfactual, showing that the reader already knows and has internalized this balance at the moment, by appealing to the reader's intuition at how surprised the reader would be: not at all surprised to read "Twitter has banned Donald Trump" - though this is a counterfactual - and on reading that headline would know that a liberal employee would have done it. Do you consider the hypothetical headline I just quoted highly improbable? (I don't.) Not saying this status quo is good or bad - I was just answering the question. EDIT: So I'm walking with someone, and he said that he couldn't see it happening. The reasons that he gave were that it would be very bad for business because a lot of Republicans also use Twitter and that since it is the president of the United States, he could argue that this is a public function. So would be limiting his freedom of speech in a sense. So I guess I'm wrong and it would surprise many people.