Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ...
by SamBam on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:12PM
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Who was the opposite side who were shutting down journalists?
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Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ...
by coldtea on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:15PM
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The Twitter of yore shutting down conservatives and other such "controversial" opinions. I don't care much for bipartisan politics, but the partisan bias in all this is palpable, as is a "the tables have turned and we don't like it so we revert to general principles we pissed on before" vibe ...
It's also comic: pundits pissing on free speech (tons of cheering when people were cancelled before, and lots of articles on how it's justified and free speech is not the be all end-all) making a u-turn to call for free speech and condemn Musk's account shutdowns now, while Musk and co that was defending free-speech before is now censoring accounts, while the "free speech" proponents in the previous round are now cheering him for it...
Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ...
by SamBam on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:30PM
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Again, what journalists were censored? And for what reason?
Re:Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with ...
by coldtea on Friday December 16, 2022 @05:52AM
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The bad ones. For good reasons of course! How could it be any other way?