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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by NaturalPhallacy on Friday October 28, 2022 @02:55PM (#33375828)
>targeting conservative voices solely based on ideology.

Clearly happening, yet even here already we have four people so far claiming that it doesn't, and people flagging/downvoting you for telling the truth.

They banned a conservative satire publication ffs. The Babylon Bee.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

—George Orwell, 1984

Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by slg on Friday October 28, 2022 @03:05PM (#33376015)
The problem is that when leftists and centrist say "censored for conservative views" they think of lower taxes and deregulation, but when conservatives point to examples of which views get censored, it is always "Oh, you know the ones"[1].

The Babylon Bee was suspended for targeted harassment. Harassment is not a conservative view.

[1] - https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/105039166355267174...

Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by somenameforme on Friday October 28, 2022 @03:40PM (#33376645)
This is the article they were indefinitely suspended for posting: https://babylonbee.com/news/the-babylon-bees-man-of-the-year...

That's only "targeted harassment" when redefining words in an arbitrary and disingenuous fashion. The article is not even especially mean hearted, let alone "targeted harassment." And then factor in the fact that the subject is a high ranking and public political figure on top of all of this.

Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by slg on Friday October 28, 2022 @03:56PM (#33376901)
>The article is not even especially mean hearted

The article is saying that Levine's entire gender identity is a lie. You honestly don't see anything mean spirited about that?

Levine is a random bureaucrat that no one in the public would know the name of if she wasn't trans. By singling her out, conservative media and the Babylon Bee are encouraging people to harass her for no other reason than her transness.

Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by phailhaus on Friday October 28, 2022 @02:59PM (#33375910)
So why aren't there any sources demonstrating this "clear bias" you're so sure of? There are actual numbers demonstrating pro-right-wing bias, and yet your only response is "no there isn't! I saw a right wing person get banned the other day!" How is this supposed to be convincing?
Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by zimpenfish on Friday October 28, 2022 @02:59PM (#33375892)
> They banned a conservative satire publication ffs. The Babylon Bee.

Nitpick: suspended until they deleted a tweet which they have refused to do.

Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by NaturalPhallacy on Friday October 28, 2022 @03:05PM (#33376016)
Nitpick: I respect them for not going through the little Maoist Struggle Session that twitter built for people it found guilty of wrongthink.
Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by WaxProlix on Friday October 28, 2022 @02:58PM (#33375880)
I see people asking for examples of conservative voices being targeted, not just blanket "nuh uh!"s.

The Bee was banned for violating the rules and promoting transphobia. Is that the "conservative voices... ideology" you're thinking of?

Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by adamsmith143 on Friday October 28, 2022 @03:03PM (#33375986)
Yeah it's crazy that Twitter banned all Conservatives from twitter and not just ones that blatantly and repeatedly broke their guidelines. Oh wait...