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Re:Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as lib... by pcbro141 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @10:20AM (#18239298)
Spreading the wrong voting day is. The mockery is fine, but I don't see anything ridiculous about Twitter not tolerating voter suppression campaigns on their platform.
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Re:Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as lib... by nailer on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @10:23AM (#18239331)
Do you think: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/10/17/business/17NPC/17... looks like a source of trustworthy information?
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Re:Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as lib... by pcbro141 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @10:40AM (#18239517)
I guess Twitter took a zero-tolerance stance against voter suppression campaigns, whether the accounts involved are clearly satirical or not. They just flat out don't want people using their platform to spread the wrong election date, even if spreading the wrong election date is just 'trolling' or 'satire' or 'expressing my opinion on the liberals' to some. Again, I don't find that stance ridiculous.
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Re:Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as lib... by castlecrasher2 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @10:55AM (#18239653)
Equating joke accounts spreading the wrong election date with voter suppression is just laughable. How could anyone possibly believe an NPC Twitter account? How stupid would they have to be?
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