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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by thisiscorrect on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:56PM (#24795288)
How is failing to send private messages which contains ideas you disagree with not censorship? You've limited the definition to "taking down the originate reference" but that's too limited.
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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by CalChris on Thursday October 15, 2020 @07:35PM (#24795653)
Because they weren't private messages. Private messages are between two parties. Instead, these were messages on a platform which is owned by Twitter between two users where these users have agreed to restrictions. You can read about those restrictions here:

https://twitter.com/en/tos

HN is no different. I know this because I've been dinged by dang.

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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by ww520 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @10:12PM (#24796708)
Direct Message is 1-to-1 private message. DM is banned.
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