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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by tomschlick on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:54AM (#31156655)
> there are countless examples of the left-wing getting banned

Can you name some that weren't due to the poster threatening someone, doxing or otherwise something illegal? I honestly can't think of any off the top of my head where a left wing post/user was banned for something legal but I can think of tons from the other side.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by V__ on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:24PM (#31157080)
I tried to find a few more or less reputable sources for you:

* https://www.wired.co.uk/article/twitter-political-account-ba...

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/fruzsinaeordogh/2018/07/31/why-...

* https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/22/twitter-a...

Don't get me wrong: I'm sure more right-wing/conservatives users are getting blocked than their counterparts, but only because they are more extreme (right now) on those platforms.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by tomschlick on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:51PM (#31157529)
It seems that of those, the only one that had anything to do with suspensions / bans was the Occupy accounts and those (according to the article) seem to have been tripping the "might be a bot" thresholds because of how they don't post for a long time and then all of a sudden all blast the same content from the same protests.

While they shouldn't be banned (and I'm assuming that was fixed after that article came out if in fact they were not bots), I haven't seen any examples of specific left wing accounts getting banned for posting content as many on the right have (examples: Hunter Biden stories and the NYP, anyone posting Wuhan Lab leak theory in 2020-2021, The Babylon Bee for the Rachel Levine satire posts, etc).

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