Re:how to completely own an airline in 3 easy steps
by dmix on Thursday January 19, 2023 @09:58PM
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> It's interesting to see that, contrary to popular narratives, many of the international groups banned were actually far-left aligned.
The list that Wikipedia determines "notable suspensions" is probably not the best gauge to counter "popular narratives". What Wikipedia chooses to highlight is often the sum of actual popular narratives - not simply popular protests [2]- which is sourced almost entirely from the media and then filtered through the culture found among Wikipedia power users.
A raw database of suspensions and their rationale [1] would probably be the only useful analysis.
[1] recent leaks show that that the US state/federal gov employees (and other well connected power players) often sent lists of tens/hundreds of accounts to be banned and Twitter employees often retroactively found reasons to do so when the given reason wasn't justified. So both the rationale and "notable" part both have questionable value for general analysis
[2] The people most often protesting bans aren't always the people getting the most media-sourceable attention for their bans
The list that Wikipedia determines "notable suspensions" is probably not the best gauge to counter "popular narratives". What Wikipedia chooses to highlight is often the sum of actual popular narratives - not simply popular protests [2]- which is sourced almost entirely from the media and then filtered through the culture found among Wikipedia power users.
A raw database of suspensions and their rationale [1] would probably be the only useful analysis.
[1] recent leaks show that that the US state/federal gov employees (and other well connected power players) often sent lists of tens/hundreds of accounts to be banned and Twitter employees often retroactively found reasons to do so when the given reason wasn't justified. So both the rationale and "notable" part both have questionable value for general analysis
[2] The people most often protesting bans aren't always the people getting the most media-sourceable attention for their bans