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Re:Twitter Locks Out Chinese Embassy in U.S. over Post on Ui... by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @09:30PM (#25854604)
Twitter has three options:

1. Do not classify anything as out of bounds. After the 6th, they decided they didn't like the results of that approach.

2. Classify out-there right-wing things as out of bounds.

3. Classify out-there stuff as out of bounds, no matter who it comes from.

If they aren't going to do option 1, option 3 is more reasonable than option 2. And if they're going to do option 3, the Chinese Embassy post seemed like really good grounds for locking someone's account.

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Re:Twitter Locks Out Chinese Embassy in U.S. over Post on Ui... by ratsmack on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @10:04PM (#25854844)
>Classify out-there right-wing things as out of bounds.

Why not include out-there left-wing things, or are left wing things always okay?

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Re:Twitter Locks Out Chinese Embassy in U.S. over Post on Ui... by TimD1 on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @11:11PM (#25855292)
The previous poster was saying that in response to storming the US Capitol building, Twitter can either: 1) ignore it, 2) respond to this specific instance (right wing extremism), or 3) respond to all inappropriate uses of their platform (which would include left wing extremism).
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