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Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms by shadowgovt on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:10AM (#23323511)
Allowing him to post on their service with a counterpoint stitched right underneath his misinformation is far preferable for him to alternatives they could choose.

Those alternatives would be "censorship" (in some sense; not any real legal sense).

This is not censorship.

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Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms by username90 on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:15AM (#23323593)
What is the difference between this and the top tweet response posting the same response as always happened before with his tweets? The only thing we learned is that Twitter is no longer even trying to be impartial.
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Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms by shadowgovt on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:18AM (#23323675)
Twitter hasn't been trying to be impartial since the time they chose not to enforce their TOS when the US elected Trump, so that's nothing new.

The difference is that Twitter's editorial voice differs from the voice of some Twitter user.

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