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This wasn’t about a side. A lie is a lie is a lie. He got banned for persisting in an objective falsehood. Oh by the way said falsehood was causing irreparable

This wasn’t about a side. A lie is a lie is a lie. He got banned for persisting in an objective falsehood. Oh by the way said falsehood was causing irreparable damage to our democracy. He wasn’t banned because of who he was. He was banned because of what he did.

aeternum 5y ago
Clinton lied, Bush lied about Iraq WMDs, CDC lied. Shall we delete their accounts?
yucky 5y ago
A falsehood like the emails on Hunter Biden's laptop that implicated Joe Biden in a Ukrainian money laundering scheme? A story that got countless people and news outlets banned for daring to discuss? A story that we were told was "Ze Russians" manipulating us, and a story that of course turned out to be true. I feel so protected knowing I wasn't allowed to discuss that story during election season. Not that I would have voted for the ineffectual Trump anyway, but still..
- aeternum 5y ago
  The Ministry of Truth will determine what is true. Or is it Homeland Security's new Disinformation Governance Board? so easy to get the two confused
faeriechangling 5y ago
Trump was banned for inciting violence, not for lying. Here were the grounds for the ban: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio... I find the rationale weak, Biden objectively has incited magnitudes more violence on twitter by constantly tweeting about how Putin is destroying the global economy and criticising Putin's war, something likely to "incite violence". Far far more than violence than we saw in 2020. It's just that people including Twitters administration are broadly sympathetic with him and supportive of violent resistance. What Trump got banned for is not inciting violence, but for being an asshole. You can ban any president you please if the standard is "inciting violence" because they'll do hundreds of things in their term that incites violence no matter what they do. It's not the case that twitter will ban everybody who incites violence, they just reserve the right to selectively ban anybody who does.

aeternum 5y ago

Clinton lied, Bush lied about Iraq WMDs, CDC lied. Shall we delete their accounts?

yucky 5y ago

A falsehood like the emails on Hunter Biden's laptop that implicated Joe Biden in a Ukrainian money laundering scheme? A story that got countless people and news outlets banned for daring to discuss? A story that we were told was "Ze Russians" manipulating us, and a story that of course turned out to be true. I feel so protected knowing I wasn't allowed to discuss that story during election season. Not that I would have voted for the ineffectual Trump anyway, but still..

aeternum 5y ago
The Ministry of Truth will determine what is true. Or is it Homeland Security's new Disinformation Governance Board? so easy to get the two confused

faeriechangling 5y ago

Trump was banned for inciting violence, not for lying. Here were the grounds for the ban: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio... I find the rationale weak, Biden objectively has incited magnitudes more violence on twitter by constantly tweeting about how Putin is destroying the global economy and criticising Putin's war, something likely to "incite violence". Far far more than violence than we saw in 2020. It's just that people including Twitters administration are broadly sympathetic with him and supportive of violent resistance. What Trump got banned for is not inciting violence, but for being an asshole. You can ban any president you please if the standard is "inciting violence" because they'll do hundreds of things in their term that incites violence no matter what they do. It's not the case that twitter will ban everybody who incites violence, they just reserve the right to selectively ban anybody who does.