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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]They do no such thing. It is one of the biggest nothingburgers in recent history. Please, in specific detail, list anything that was illegal or even unethical that was revealed.
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For example, the White House Press Secretary had her account frozen for tweeting about a New York Post article about Hunters laptop in the month before the 2020 election. I would say that was an abuse of power and an unethical decision by twitter.[/quote]

Twitter made a decision that the laptop story violated its terms of service. The White House Press Secretary violated the terms of service and had her account frozen until she removed the tweet in question. That is not unethical. To the contrary, it would have been unethical to allow the Press Secretary to violate terms of service to which others were held to account.
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And if you read further there were several discussions within Twitter and even with a democrat politician in regards to the Terms of service violation. They questioned it. The politician even remarked how it violated the first amendment and how would make them look bad.

What Twitter did was unethical.[/quote]
Twitter has a first amendment right to publish or not publish whatever it wants. Other than that the first amendment is completely irrelevant here. [/quote]

Twitter users obviously do not according to you.

When it comes out that twitter silenced republicans over democrats will you agree with that too? Twitter is seen as a public  square. Now the question is:  will it behave as such and obey the constitution?  Or it shall be dismantled?

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How about acknowledging that it DID come out that Twitter [i]silenced Democrats at Trump White House request:[/i]

[url]https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598828932395978752[/url]

[twitter]https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598828932395978752[/twitter]

Your outrage seems very selective.[/quote]
Keep up. All those tweets shared revenge porn which is against Twitter’s terms of service.

Say your daughter had sex with Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke got a hold of the tape. Would it be OK for him to disseminate pictures of your naked daughter without her consent? No, because Twitter has rules against that which every Twitter user agrees to when they sign up and continue to use the service.[/quote]

"Keep up?"  Are you actually trying to suggest the right wing has now stopped selectively whining and pretending they were the only ones targeted?  Because, I'm totally NOT seeing any of that. So don't use condescending, patronizing terms like "keep up" until it's actually valid to do so.

But since you responded to me with an answer to a totally different comment by someone else, a.) yes, Twitter does have the right to determine their ToS, b.) it should apply regardless of whether it's left or right (and as Taibbi let slip, people on the left did in fact get suppressed by Twitter - my own left-leaning account, established 2009, with thousands of followers, was inexplicably permanently suspended without warning or explanation)  c.) us simply not liking their ToS does not make it 'unfair' or 'unethical' d.) their ToS does not have to observe the First Amendment and e.) where the First Amendment comes in is only when the government steps in to censor content, which we now see evidence from Taibbi that the Trump White House did do - but which we do not yet see any evidence that the Biden White House did.[/quote]

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