Not surprising but sad.

Politicians should be excluded from what you're talking about IMO.

They're elected to serve the people and stand for our American beliefs including the freedom of speech. A political party (the DNC in this case) getting tweets removed probably isn't a 1st amendment violation. But it's really shady and anyone from government (the white house in this case) getting tweets removed is likely violating the first amendment (or coming REALLY close to it).

I’m pretty sure first amendment does not apply to corporations and their services. The test I normally ask ppl to perform is this. If you think there is some sort of fallacy in it happy to discuss it

Can I kick you out of my hours if I disagree with your view?

Can I kick you out of my bar if I disagree with your views?

Can I kick you out of my platform if I disagree with you?

Sure thing account name Dem Boys created just after the January 6 insurrection. This is trolling stop upvoting it.

Now do Fox News and the GOP

Internal policy debates are evil! To save democracy, public forums should be run by benevolent dictators!!

Huh. Kinda like Musk hanging out with Tim Cook at Apple Park?

Wealthy people in America have access?

I had a really interesting and probably too speculative article about Terry Davis over 10 years ago and it got pulled from Reddit and HN after hitting the front page of both within a minute or so of each other. They had been on both front pages for a few hours and then bam, wiped from both.

Nobody reached out to me but I think even a statistician skeptic would have to entertain the idea that there's some "red phone" style back channel between them mods that occasionally is triggered.

I pulled the article and replaced it with a description of what happened because out of sincerity I felt compelled to follow in whatever footsteps those were. I never got an explanation about it.

Kind of a pity. I had been working on a book on tech and mental health but I abandoned it. Seems like it's an obvious topic these days