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> And yet, when Twitter allowed a tiny bit more free speech Did they! Was that before or after they banned a bunch of journalist's accounts for making Elon ma

> And yet, when Twitter allowed a tiny bit more free speech Did they! Was that before or after they banned a bunch of journalist's accounts for making Elon mad? https://observer.com/2022/12/left-wing-twitter-accounts-criticizing-elon-musk-are-being-suspended-for-platform-manipulation-and-spam/ https://observer.com/2022/12/left-wing-twitter-accounts-crit... https://www.thewrap.com/elon-musk-called-out-banned-left-wing-accounts/ https://www.thewrap.com/elon-musk-called-out-banned-left-win... https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/a-leaked-internal-message-appears-to-show-elon-musk-ordered-twitter-staff-to-suspend-a-left-wing-activist-s-account/ar-AA16NS0X https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/a-leaked-internal-mess... If you're really such a fan of free speech, you've bet on the wrong horse.

smsm42 3y ago
You do know what "a tiny bit" means? That's why I didn't say "Twitter became a bastion of free speech with spectacular record", I said "allowed a tiny bit more of free speech". I'm not betting on any horses here - as I wrote in another comment here, I left Twitter years before the whole Musk brouhaha started, and I am not planning to return ever. I am just noting not all complaints can be taken at face value.
- BaseballPhysics 3y ago
  > I said "allowed a tiny bit more of free speech" I see, so on the one hand banned journalists, but on the otherhand reinstated white nationalist accounts so, you know, net positive in your books? Okay. Sure. Why not.
  - SV_BubbleTime 3y ago
    No journalists were banned. A few were suspended for a short time after Twitter say the broke written TOS. Be honest and clear.
    - BaseballPhysics 3y ago
      For a free speech purist that should be a distinction without a difference.
  - smsm42 3y ago
    They didn't ban journalists, and classifying people they reinstated as "white nationalists" without any further distinction is an extremely disingenuous take. Twitter restored tens of thousands of accounts, and the reasons for bans were extremely varied, so there's no way you could know every single one of those (62000 just at one reinstatement) are "white nationalists" and that's why they were reinstated. Among those restored were Kanye West, Jordan Peterson, satirical site "Babylon Bee", Kathy Griffin and tens of thousands of others. You are just throwing it out to smear them all because of political hate, because pre-Musk twitter mostly (though not only) banned people leaning to the right. Which makes me think your intent is not to understand what I said but to maliciously misinterpret it to accuse me of some political sin that appears heinous to you. I have little interest in that, goodbye.

smsm42 3y ago

You do know what "a tiny bit" means? That's why I didn't say "Twitter became a bastion of free speech with spectacular record", I said "allowed a tiny bit more of free speech". I'm not betting on any horses here - as I wrote in another comment here, I left Twitter years before the whole Musk brouhaha started, and I am not planning to return ever. I am just noting not all complaints can be taken at face value.

BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> I said "allowed a tiny bit more of free speech" I see, so on the one hand banned journalists, but on the otherhand reinstated white nationalist accounts so, you know, net positive in your books? Okay. Sure. Why not.
- SV_BubbleTime 3y ago
  No journalists were banned. A few were suspended for a short time after Twitter say the broke written TOS. Be honest and clear.
  - BaseballPhysics 3y ago
    For a free speech purist that should be a distinction without a difference.
- smsm42 3y ago
  They didn't ban journalists, and classifying people they reinstated as "white nationalists" without any further distinction is an extremely disingenuous take. Twitter restored tens of thousands of accounts, and the reasons for bans were extremely varied, so there's no way you could know every single one of those (62000 just at one reinstatement) are "white nationalists" and that's why they were reinstated. Among those restored were Kanye West, Jordan Peterson, satirical site "Babylon Bee", Kathy Griffin and tens of thousands of others. You are just throwing it out to smear them all because of political hate, because pre-Musk twitter mostly (though not only) banned people leaning to the right. Which makes me think your intent is not to understand what I said but to maliciously misinterpret it to accuse me of some political sin that appears heinous to you. I have little interest in that, goodbye.