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Re:The Twitter Files Part 2: Twitter's Secret Blacklists by mandmandam on Friday December 09, 2022 @01:00AM (#33918064)
> I would hope that journalists conduct their research through better means than solely reading Tweets.

That's not a good reason to suppress scientists tweets.

Also, many of the best journalists of the past decades have been loudly warning of being shadowbanned, supressed, deranked etc.

> I don't think anyone would administer web forums if the government started telling them how they could and could not moderate posting.

A large part of these Twitter reveals show just how much government connections pushed extreme "moderation" (read: censorship) of specific issues.

Re:The Twitter Files Part 2: Twitter's Secret Blacklists by HDThoreaun on Friday December 09, 2022 @11:39AM (#33923305)
Not really. Biden just asked twitter take down his sons dick pics.