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Towards the end of Bidens presidency, with six months to go, Twitter decides to have a cull of top Democrat accounts including the president. @POTUS still exists but is heavily censored. They give some bullshit cover reason which doesn't fly at all, but it doesn't matter.
So do you think the reasons given by twitter etc. are bullshit, or are they simply banning a very high-profile person who has badly violated their terms of use?
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I'm not commenting on the Trump situation at all, I'm highlighting the power that Twitter holds.
FWIW Trump has been spouting so much bullshit about stolen elections etc since November 6th and Twitter should have been censoring those tweets more strongly, and suspending him every single time he violated their TOS.
Bainbridge
Let's just flip this round for a second.
Imagine Twitter exists but it's owned by a right-leaning Jack Dorsey.
Towards the end of Bidens presidency, with six months to go, Twitter decides to have a cull of top Democrat accounts including the president. @POTUS still exists but is heavily censored. They give some bullshit cover reason which doesn't fly at all, but it doesn't matter.
Boden isn't silenced but this massively reduces the reach of his messages. He uses all other platforms but the election is swung towards the Republicans. Being that it seems US elections are pretty tight these days, it doesn't take much to change swing voters minds, and all they see if Republican messages.
Do we want that sort of power in the hands of a private company?