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Re:Twitter Suspends 235,000 More Accounts Over Extremism by at-fates-hands on Thursday August 18, 2016 @06:03PM (#12316659)
>> nor, indeed, the right to use the Internet website Twitter dot com to broadcast ideas.

I seriously can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. People broadcast ideas all day on twitter. Did you miss the dumpster fire that was #gamergate? What about the white supremacists who use it as a platform, or people who advocate "rape culture" or black lives matter who advocate violence against police? I can find ALL of these and more - yet we choose to single out one religious ideology we don't like and censor the fuck out of it?

Yeah, in a country with "free speech" that makes perfect sense.

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Re:Twitter Suspends 235,000 More Accounts Over Extremism by taco_emoji on Friday August 19, 2016 @02:26PM (#12322228)
It's not sarcasm. I'm talking about a legally-protected right - you can post on Twitter because Twitter has decided to allow it, not because they are legally required to do so.

> ...we choose to single out one religious ideology we don't like and censor the fuck out of it?

"We" didn't single out anybody, Twitter did, and they can do that because they own the platform and have absolute authority over who can use it.

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