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Re:Suppression is a bigger scandal than the actual story by throwawayay02 on Sunday October 25, 2020 @07:17PM (#24891010)
Twitter did not decide that in good faight. First, because they are used as a public platform, like it or not, and as such they are not expected to moderate anything. People follow or block what they want. And second, because they are biased in their censorship and are not forthcoming about it.
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Re:Suppression is a bigger scandal than the actual story by AgentME on Sunday October 25, 2020 @10:13PM (#24892226)
Every public platform would look exactly like your email's spam folder if they weren't expected to moderate anything.
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Re:Suppression is a bigger scandal than the actual story by phs318u on Sunday October 25, 2020 @07:29PM (#24891114)
> as such they are not expected to moderate anything

When even the president's tweets have been squelched or tagged, I highly doubt that anyone reasonably familiar with Twitter over the last couple of years would have that expectation.

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Re:Suppression is a bigger scandal than the actual story by sagichmal on Sunday October 25, 2020 @07:27PM (#24891102)
> because they are used as a public platform . . . they are not expected to moderate anything

Says who?

> because they are biased in their censorship

Yes, and reality has a liberal bias, eh?

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Re:Suppression is a bigger scandal than the actual story by triceratops on Monday October 26, 2020 @01:49AM (#24893165)
There is no legal requirement for a "public platform" (this is not a legal term) to be unmoderated or "neutral". You've been misinformed.
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