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Twitter permanently bans My Pillow CEO
- rvz 6y agoSuppose if I said "Aliens exist" repeatedly by showing little evidence like showing a small journal article or a recently released paper linked in the description / tweet for months. Do I also get banned?
- jfengel 6y agoOnly if you're trying to get people to vote for the aliens. The stated policy is "You may not use Twitter’s services for the purpose of manipulating or interfering in elections or other civic processes." https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/election-integrity-policy https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/election-inte...
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- jfengel 6y agoI'm genuinely surprised. The "free speech" route is also the easiest for them: they don't have to make difficult judgments and have an easy reply to any criticism. I expected that they might be sore in the run-up to January 6, when they were afraid of being blamed for the inevitable. But I assumed that after the inauguration, they'd convince themselves that the threat of violence had faded and they could return to the laissez-faire course. That's the paradox for them: they want click-generating controversy, but they want it to stop short of real-world violence. Most people are keyboard warriors and it won't spill over into physical action very often -- even demonstrations usually only provoke opportunistic vandalism rather than organized violence. So I'm surprised that they're continuing to take actions, especially ones that will generate a lot of controversy against them.