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Not only did twitter end up removing it, but it was a hashtag in response to a video from the protests of people yelling “Hang Mike Pence”, primarily not people
by NineStarPoint 6y ago
Not only did twitter end up removing it, but it was a hashtag in response to a video from the protests of people yelling “Hang Mike Pence”, primarily not people actually calling for Mike Pence to be hanged. That I keep seeing this example being thrown around from conservative sources shows either a desire to argue in bad faith or a complete inability to research things beyond the absolute surface level. And it’s not like there aren’t other examples one could use to make reasonable complaints about censorship bias on twitter.
- Karunamon 6y agoDid they actively remove it, or did it just age out of trending like everything does after a relatively short amount of time?
- debaserab2 6y agoShouldn't you be the one researching the argument you're supporting?
- Karunamon 6y agoI wasn't the one that made the claim it was actively removed.
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- debaserab2 6y agoCome on, you threw out a baseless claim that didn't even survive a superficial level of scrutiny. Now you're just moving goal posts.
- Karunamon 6y agoIn fairness, I don't have a habit of applying tight scrutiny to things that appear, on their face, to be blatant calls to violence. It's usually self-evident by reading the words. Twitter's actions aren't even self-consistent here. If these tweets were all innocuous, then why remove the trend? If they were primarily discussions of other people's activity, rather than explicit calls for violence, then there was no good reason to do this. Also, there's nothing "moving goal posts" about asking people to at least try to substantiate what they post. The person I responded to didn't even bother posting a link.