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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by jshier on Friday October 28, 2022 @02:42PM (#33375616)
No one has been targeted on Twitter solely for being conservative.
Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by yamtaddle on Friday October 28, 2022 @03:12PM (#33376144)
As captured pretty well in the classic fake meme-exchange that goes something like:

"I was cancelled from Twitter for posting about my conservative views!"

"Oh no, you were cancelled for posting about restrained fiscal policy?"

"LOL no, not that."

"Free trade?"

"Not even close."

"Well... what conservative views are you talking about?"

"Oh, you know the ones" wink

Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by brigandish on Friday October 28, 2022 @03:41PM (#33376660)
Stating that humans are sexually dimorphic? That a man claiming to have transitioned to female is still a man? That got the Babylon Bee sanctioned, for satire.

I would also hope that's not a "conservative" view as it's simply a scientific fact.

Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by yunwal on Friday October 28, 2022 @04:10PM (#33377181)
yeah, those ones
Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by paganel on Friday October 28, 2022 @03:21PM (#33376304)
This certainly must not be true.
Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by zo1 on Friday October 28, 2022 @03:16PM (#33376215)
It's easy to say that when you define conservative opinions as breaking the rules or harassment. So they get banned for hate and harassment instead of just being conservative or right leaning. Congrats you won on a technicality.

So both sides are right, and yet the conversation between the extremes moved backwards instead of finding common ground.

Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by NaturalPhallacy on Friday October 28, 2022 @04:01PM (#33376983)
>It's easy to say that when you define conservative opinions as breaking the rules or harassment.

That's literally what they did. "misgendering someone" is hatespeech/harassment. When from a sane perspective outside the woke cult: Humans aren't clownfish and cannot change their gender.

The emperor's new dress doesn't make him a woman.

Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by JSchmoe on Friday October 28, 2022 @04:45PM (#33377710)
>Humans aren't clownfish and cannot change their gender.

Hit the nail on the head here. Hence, the medical community's current response is to adjust the individual's body, appearance and treatment from others to match their gender as closely as possible.

Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by poorlyknit on Saturday October 29, 2022 @09:25PM (#33389922)
Except there's a difference between harassing people in particular and just stating your general opinion on some topic.