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Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by pknopf on Friday May 29, 2020 @12:56PM (#23352421)
Plenty of left-leaning people get banned as well.
Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by Simulacra on Friday May 29, 2020 @12:59PM (#23352460)
But not for tweets of violence, and they're not getting fact-checked like Trump.
Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by mthoms on Friday May 29, 2020 @01:12PM (#23352636)
Speaking of fact checking. Please cite your source on this. Thanks.
Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by Simulacra on Friday May 29, 2020 @01:22PM (#23352775)
Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by tomnipotent on Friday May 29, 2020 @01:42PM (#23353039)
Your single example is from eight years ago and long before the current fact checking policy?
Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by pknopf on Friday May 29, 2020 @02:24PM (#23353638)
I can show you cases where right-leaning folks are left on the platform as well.

You are missing the forest for the trees.

Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by mthoms on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:15PM (#23354306)
So, your source is a singular example? From nearly a decade ago? Right.
Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by vkou on Friday May 29, 2020 @01:12PM (#23352632)
Only accounts with a large reach get fact checked. Unfortunately, leftist lunatics don't have the same reach as him, so they aren't ever going to get fact checked. (Just banned for violating the TOS.)

Edit: Don't understand the sentiment. Are there any radical left accounts with as much reach as the POTUS, that engage in similar behaviour that I am not aware of? If they exist, they should be trivial to link to. Looking at the top Twitter accounts, they consist of Barack Obama, YouTube, Modi, Bill Gates and a bunch of celebrities. Are any of those folks radical left? Will Lady Gaga or Katy Perry be opening the 2021 Superbowl halftime with "Internationale?"

Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by mthoms on Friday May 29, 2020 @02:04PM (#23353390)
I think you're being downvoting because your first sentence appears to be calling all leftists lunatics when (correct me if I'm wrong) you're actually saying "there are no leftists who are quite as loony and prominent as Trump so there is no easy comparison".
Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by ardy42 on Friday May 29, 2020 @02:22PM (#23353613)
> I think you're being downvoting because your first sentence appears to be calling all leftists lunatics when (correct me if I'm wrong) you're actually saying "there are no leftists who are quite as loony and prominent as Trump so there is no easy comparison".

I think so. The GP's use of the term "leftist lunatics" reads as a right-wing shibboleth to me.

Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by dmurray on Friday May 29, 2020 @04:02PM (#23354816)
Outside the US, I hear "looney left" and related terms used all the time by political moderates to describe any leftist groups outside the political mainstream, with a similar connotation to "alt-right", though it's a meaner phrase. It's derogatory towards them, but not towards the left in general.
Re:Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” by mcguire on Friday May 29, 2020 @04:43PM (#23355292)
Inside the US, "looney left", "communists", and "traitors" are all used by the political center-right and right-wards to describe any leftist group. Any reference to the left is intended to be derogatory.