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Plenty of left-leaning people get banned as well.

• Simulacra 6y ago
  But not for tweets of violence, and they're not getting fact-checked like Trump.
  • vkou 6y ago
    Only accounts with a large reach get fact checked. Unfortunately, leftist lunatics don't have the same reach as him, so they aren't ever going to get fact checked. (Just banned for violating the TOS.) Edit: Don't understand the sentiment. Are there any radical left accounts with as much reach as the POTUS, that engage in similar behaviour that I am not aware of? If they exist, they should be trivial to link to. Looking at the top Twitter accounts, they consist of Barack Obama, YouTube, Modi, Bill Gates and a bunch of celebrities. Are any of those folks radical left? Will Lady Gaga or Katy Perry be opening the 2021 Superbowl halftime with "Internationale?"
    • mthoms 6y ago
      I think you're being downvoting because your first sentence appears to be calling all leftists lunatics when (correct me if I'm wrong) you're actually saying "there are no leftists who are quite as loony and prominent as Trump so there is no easy comparison".
      • ardy42 6y ago
        > I think you're being downvoting because your first sentence appears to be calling all leftists lunatics when (correct me if I'm wrong) you're actually saying "there are no leftists who are quite as loony and prominent as Trump so there is no easy comparison". I think so. The GP's use of the term "leftist lunatics" reads as a right-wing shibboleth to me.
        • dmurray 6y ago
          Outside the US, I hear "looney left" and related terms used all the time by political moderates to describe any leftist groups outside the political mainstream, with a similar connotation to "alt-right", though it's a meaner phrase. It's derogatory towards them, but not towards the left in general.
          • mcguire 6y ago
            Inside the US, "looney left", "communists", and "traitors" are all used by the political center-right and right-wards to describe any leftist group. Any reference to the left is intended to be derogatory.
  • mthoms 6y ago
    Speaking of fact checking. Please cite your source on this. Thanks.
    • Simulacra 6y ago
      You mean like Spike Lee? https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/trayvon-martin-spike-lee-george-zimmerman-twitter-controversy-304775 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/trayvon-martin-spike-...
      • tomnipotent 6y ago
        Your single example is from eight years ago and long before the current fact checking policy?
      • pknopf 6y ago
        I can show you cases where right-leaning folks are left on the platform as well. You are missing the forest for the trees.
      • mthoms 6y ago
        So, your source is a singular example? From nearly a decade ago? Right.