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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by ajross on Monday April 25, 2022 @10:43AM (#31155563)
That's not the case. Literally everyone who's dealt in inflammatory content (talking about a violent event, say, the recent Ukraine war has been filled with this) has had run-ins with the moderation process at twitter. They issue suspensions for false positives all the time, and everyone thinks it's targetted censorship. It's not.

Where it starts to look biased is that they've drawn two lines in the sand in recent years: 1. No disinformation about a global pandemic, and 2. No using lies about an election to justify violence against the government. And they banned a bunch of people that did that. And yes: it was one side that made those issues "partisan".

I really don't know what you want Twitter to do here. In any other society, those would seem like reasonable rules.

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by briandear on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:43PM (#31158238)
Disinformation about the global pandemic? How do we know if it’s disinformation if it can’t even be debated? It’s a fact that vaccines can cause injury. It’s a fact that there is a risk of myocarditis. But you can’t talk about that.

Why was Robert Malone kicked off? Isn’t his opinion more valuable than some random news personality when it comes to Covid? Literally banning a scientist who helped invent the very tech he is discussing. If he’s wrong, that’s fine, but it isn’t about facts — even the debate is banned.

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by wtetzner on Monday April 25, 2022 @02:51PM (#31159071)
> No disinformation about a global pandemic

And what exactly constitutes misinformation? I think this is the problem.