They did ban him for his political views. But it's clever how you snuck in that one subjective statement into an otherwise objective line of reasoning.

> They did ban him for his political views.

No, they banned him for soliciting harassment, not for the views which motivated the solicitation of the harassment.

That policy is used to silence dissenting opinion. Don't spread this PR. It's equivalent to police claiming they detained you for a broken tail light. Dorsey and his Saudi owners are on a purge.

You have it backwards.

I believe you are referring to twitter being used to silence a dissenting opinion when you said "that policy", in reference to Nero. I actually think it's the other way, the bullying sent toward the SNL actresses' way, the sexist and homophobic comments, those were actually meant to silence a dissenting view, someone those people did not like.

Stopping bullying is a good thing. No good comes from bullying someone you don't like.

Nero's alt-right followers "actually meant" to ridicule her. Twitter actually silenced him.

That's why they banned Jones as well. Oh wait, they didn't. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA44q8W_Xt0

They did not ban him for his political views. They banned him for impersonating tweets of another user, and for leading a harassment campaign against other users. Nothing to do with his political views.