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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by acdha on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @07:13AM (#33704919)
Exactly what kind of views do you think moderates were worried about not being tolerated? Going by the definition of the term it seems unlikely that anyone, much less millions, was previously deterred by policy.
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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by user_ on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:33PM (#33709202)
> A man cannot get pregnant. A man has no womb or eggs

That got a Spanish politician (Francisco José Contreras) banned.

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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by acdha on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @02:13PM (#33709872)
He wasn’t banned (only suspended for a few hours) and that was directed at a single trans person. That last part is almost certainly the reason why he got that warning unlike the many people who have generically expressed similar beliefs.
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