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Re:Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial by dewey on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @09:46AM (#29485280)
After following the account for a bit it was mostly just spreading rumours like "Baldwin deleting account because of Epstein trial" when in reality it was most likely related to the shooting. I can understand that it got suspended by people probably reporting some of these tweets.

It was far from a factual tracking of the events.

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Re:Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial by rscoots on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @10:05AM (#29485579)
And yet we’re left to guess exactly what Twitter deemed us unworthy of reading.

The opaqueness of the censor is a feature not a bug.

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Re:Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial by dewey on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @10:21AM (#29485801)
Or, as it usually happens in these cases some algorithm suspended the account because too many users reported something and it got flagged and it's not some exciting intervention of the deep state.
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Re:Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial by raxxorrax on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @10:33AM (#29485965)
That is pretty unlikely and not what was proposed. Pretty sure this would not happen to accounts that are deemed reputable sources. Also I guess there are exclusion lists for prominent people that are not beholden to the TOS.
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Re:Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial by sofixa on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @10:18AM (#29485756)
If Twitter say exactly what brought the ban, next time the scammers will know exactly what to avoid.
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Re:Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial by centrinoblue on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @10:32AM (#29485948)
But the line will be clearer.
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Re:Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial by lp0_on_fire on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @10:28AM (#29485908)
"If the criminals knew how we'd try them in court they'd know to avoid it so let's go back to the days of the star chamber!"

(Obviously courts != twitter for the pedantic among us)

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