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>The conservative-leaning parody site, The Babylon Bee, was suspended by Twitter for 12 hours, after it had mockingly awarded transgender government official Ra

>The conservative-leaning parody site, The Babylon Bee, was suspended by Twitter for 12 hours, after it had mockingly awarded transgender government official Rachel Levine the title "Man of the Year." In what way was this "100% warranted"? You mean it's "100% warranted" to ban accounts which make fun of people and things you don't like? What about making fun of Trump? Is that fine? Seems to be, and seems to be based entirely on the mod's political persuasions. Let's talk about Hunter Biden's laptop. This was banned almost immediately under the premise of "hacked material." Okay, seems fair. Except they allowed (and continue to allow) hacked material to circulate about the Canadian Freedom Convoy donors. Let's talk about covid. Twitter banned any and all mentions (and accounts) which discussed the possibility that covid came from a lab in Wuhan. This is now a leading theory of its origin. Project Veritas, whether you like them or not, have been instrumental in exposing the relationship between Fauci and EcoHealth Alliance. The fact that Fauci oversaw re-defining the term "gain of function research," that he explicitly gave funding to EcoHealth Alliance, knowing they would be funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology to conduct gain of function research, and uncovered incorrectly redacted emails between Fauci and EcoHealth Alliance. Twitter even suspended Chinese virologist Li-Meng Yan who fled the country to talk about the high likelihood of a lab leak. I feel quite certain you're busy telling yourself "but these are all totally justified!" This means your views align really well with the moderation on Twitter. Where it's fine to ban things like this, but not the hacked private information about Canadian Freedom Convoy donors, or Trump and family hacks, or the doxing of Libs of Ticktok founder Chaya Raichik.

EricE 5y ago
What a shock you are getting downvoted - not sure why, other than you are challenging people’s cherished dogma. Which is exactly why if Elon can forced moderation to at least be transparent and consistent, and not purely through the lens of political ideology we will all be better for it. And if it makes people uncomfortable - good! If you are fat, dumb and happy then you really aren’t doing anything. Life without friction is pretty meaningless - probably why so many people are pretty miserable even if they don’t actively realize it. Reading some of the comments in here - the lack of self awareness by many is pretty amazing.
- madeofpalk 5y ago
  "Transparent and consistent" moderation has nothing to do with freeing it from "political ideology". Twitter's moderation is fairly transparent, and mostly consistentish (as it can be, moderating on the scale that twitter does, which i guess is not very consistent at all...). Just because you don't agree with their moderation doesn't make it untransparent, or inconsistent.
rubyist5eva 5y ago
Trump should start identifying as a woman so that it becomes hate speech to mock him.
chimprich 5y ago
> Let's talk about covid. Twitter banned any and all mentions (and accounts) which discussed the possibility that covid came from a lab in Wuhan. This is the one example everyone who is getting their knickers in a twist about Twitter censorship loves to bring up, but it doesn't seem to be a great example. There's only weak circumstantial evidence in favour of the theory and banning discussion of it was something Twitter realised was a mistake and rolled back on. I don't think it's unreasonable for mistakes to happen as long as they're corrected. I think there are plenty of things you can criticise Twitter for, but this seems like an odd one to highlight. > Twitter even suspended Chinese virologist Li-Meng Yan who fled the country to talk about the high likelihood of a lab leak. "Even"? This is a misrepresentation. Yan is a political hack. She refuses to have her work peer-reviewed. See e.g. [0]. She's a useful pawn for Steve Bannon. [0] https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2020/200921-in-response-yan.pdf https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archiv...

EricE 5y ago

What a shock you are getting downvoted - not sure why, other than you are challenging people’s cherished dogma. Which is exactly why if Elon can forced moderation to at least be transparent and consistent, and not purely through the lens of political ideology we will all be better for it. And if it makes people uncomfortable - good! If you are fat, dumb and happy then you really aren’t doing anything. Life without friction is pretty meaningless - probably why so many people are pretty miserable even if they don’t actively realize it. Reading some of the comments in here - the lack of self awareness by many is pretty amazing.

madeofpalk 5y ago
"Transparent and consistent" moderation has nothing to do with freeing it from "political ideology". Twitter's moderation is fairly transparent, and mostly consistentish (as it can be, moderating on the scale that twitter does, which i guess is not very consistent at all...). Just because you don't agree with their moderation doesn't make it untransparent, or inconsistent.

rubyist5eva 5y ago

Trump should start identifying as a woman so that it becomes hate speech to mock him.

chimprich 5y ago

> Let's talk about covid. Twitter banned any and all mentions (and accounts) which discussed the possibility that covid came from a lab in Wuhan. This is the one example everyone who is getting their knickers in a twist about Twitter censorship loves to bring up, but it doesn't seem to be a great example. There's only weak circumstantial evidence in favour of the theory and banning discussion of it was something Twitter realised was a mistake and rolled back on. I don't think it's unreasonable for mistakes to happen as long as they're corrected. I think there are plenty of things you can criticise Twitter for, but this seems like an odd one to highlight. > Twitter even suspended Chinese virologist Li-Meng Yan who fled the country to talk about the high likelihood of a lab leak. "Even"? This is a misrepresentation. Yan is a political hack. She refuses to have her work peer-reviewed. See e.g. [0]. She's a useful pawn for Steve Bannon. [0] https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2020/200921-in-response-yan.pdf https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archiv...