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[quote=Anonymous]I guess that's the right wing's latest talking point now, that somehow now the left are the hypocrites, because they need to deflect away from Elon's lies and hypocrisy.

Let's unravel it all. It goes something like this:  Prior to Elon Musk's takeover *some* people out of the millions of people talking about Twitter, said "well Twitter can ban conservatives because they are a private company."  Reality is, not really that many people even said that in the first place, because the people defending the bans were defending bans because of hate speech, antisemitism, conspiracy theories putting peoples lives at risk, and other kinds of toxic behavior, not because of conservatism.

Do you think conservatism somehow requires that kind of toxic behavior, that it's somehow integral?  Most people don't.  And, the overwhelming majority of conservatives on Twitter WEREN'T banned. Was Ron DeSantis banned?  No.  The people calling for conservatives to be banned for no reason other than being conservative are a.) rare and b.) unhinged.

Part 2, the supposed "hypocrisy of the left" - it's premised on "the same people" who called for bans and who defended it "because twitter's a private company" - same actually means same.  Person A before Musk takeover = Person A after Musk takeover.  You can't just wave a half empty beer can around in the air and say "they" because...  (life lesson for you here)...  not everyone who ever disagreed with you is in lockstep agreement with everyone else who disagrees with you.  So even IF some rando before Musk's takeover said "hey they can muzzle free speech because they are a private company" and now says "OMG they are muzzling free speech and shouldn't be allowed to do that" after Musk's takeover, that has absolutely NOTHING to do with any of the rest of us because the people who disagree with you are not even remotely the monolith your smooth brain seems to believe it is.[/quote]

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