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Re:Not Your Imagination: Twitter Treats Conservatives More H... by zimpenfish on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @07:15AM (#19152454)
Anecdata: Given the number of left/liberal people I've seen on my timeline/lists suspended for innocuous replies to harassment, the number of posts about Twitter support not suspending conservative harassers (POTUS being a prime example!), and the fairly strong conservative bias of Quillette, I'll be needing a bag of salt and a lot more proof than this article provides.
Re:Not Your Imagination: Twitter Treats Conservatives More H... by shard972 on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @07:21AM (#19152481)
> Twitter support not suspending conservative harassers (POTUS being a prime example!),

Thats a pretty poor example. The simple reality is that @potus won't be banned as it will immediately sow the seeds of twitters own destruction.

If you think twitter is bigger than the president of the USA, then im not sure what else to say.

If you want to point to examples as evidence, then what about Kathy Griffith? She can post herself holding a decapitated head of the president and sick mobs on school children because they smirked wearing a maga hat and yet shes not banned.

Re:Not Your Imagination: Twitter Treats Conservatives More H... by zimpenfish on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @07:49AM (#19152614)
> If you think twitter is bigger than the president of the USA

Why would it not be? It's a worldwide thing, not just for some provincial colony.

> She can post herself holding a decapitated head of the president

Which was clearly a joke.

> and sick mobs on school children

Yep, I'd agree she should be suspended for that.

Re:Not Your Imagination: Twitter Treats Conservatives More H... by ethagknight on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @07:25AM (#19152500)
It would be more helpful to provide substance to this claim rather than tossing a smoke grenade on the matter? Who are the left leaning people you’ve seen suspended?
Re:Not Your Imagination: Twitter Treats Conservatives More H... by zimpenfish on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @07:37AM (#19152556)
Re:Not Your Imagination: Twitter Treats Conservatives More H... by repolfx on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @08:37AM (#19152902)
The first is about testing for banned words deliberately.

The second link appears to be about anti-spam suspensions related to people who controlled many different Twitter accounts simultaneously using bots, not content related enforcement.

The third link is about the following tweet:

"Can’t wait for November 4th when millions of antifa supersoldiers will behead all white parents and small business owners in the town square"

That isn't an "innocuous reply to harrassment" as you implied in your first comment.

So far I don't think you've demonstrated the point you were trying to make. None of the examples of these suspensions were replies to harassment.

Re:Not Your Imagination: Twitter Treats Conservatives More H... by zimpenfish on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @09:56AM (#19153517)
> The first is about testing for banned words deliberately.

After being banned for using those words inocuously.

> That isn't an "innocuous reply to harrassment" as you implied in your first comment.

No, that wasn't one of those. It was clearly a joke, however.

> None of the examples of these suspensions were replies to harassment

A fair point. Next time I log into Twitter, I'll make a collection and come back with those, ok? I just didn't happen to have one ready for this discussion at current time.

Re:Not Your Imagination: Twitter Treats Conservatives More H... by vinniejames on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @07:44AM (#19152586)
Intentionally getting banned by doing something publicly known to be bannable doesn't really apply here httpswitter.com/zozie_kicks/status/1078008088978956289
Re:Not Your Imagination: Twitter Treats Conservatives More H... by zimpenfish on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @07:51AM (#19152634)
Well, it was a test to see if it was the word 'goy' that was the trigger - previous suspensions had already happened. But fair point, it's not a great example.
Re:Not Your Imagination: Twitter Treats Conservatives More H... by afiori on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @07:25AM (#19152502)
Kathy Griffin literally called for her followers to dox the MAGA kids. When asked about this on Joe Rogan podcast twitter CEO just changed the topic.

Journalist are the lifeline of twitter, so they will always be on the side of the mainstream media. If you are leftist/liberal but out of the media bubble (like some trans-esclusionary radical femminists) then you are worse off than conservatives,

Re:Not Your Imagination: Twitter Treats Conservatives More H... by MrMember on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @01:20PM (#19155268)
Anecdotes and all that, but the past month has been crazy. Call for doxxing of high school kids, to open fire on them if you see them, or to lock them in the school and burn it down, and nothing happens. Tweet "learn to code" at a journalist and your account gets suspended.
Re:Not Your Imagination: Twitter Treats Conservatives More H... by zimpenfish on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @07:50AM (#19152626)
> Kathy Griffin literally called for her followers to dox the MAGA kids.

Well, she asked for names, not a full dox, but I would agree that she should have been temporarily suspended for that, yep.

> like some trans-esclusionary radical femminists

They tend not to be leftist/liberal in my experience.

Re:Not Your Imagination: Twitter Treats Conservatives More H... by afiori on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @04:56PM (#19157476)
"liberal" is a confusing word; for a few centuries leftist/liberal meant very similar things in the west. Today we have strong movements of illiberal/authoritarian on the left while the right (in the US) has strong libertarian movements.

Consider the famous example of the baker and the homosexual wedding. Without judging the standard leftist position is significantly less libertarian than the usual position on the right.