Look, we all know you’re making that up but if we take you at face value, you just defined conservatism as the beliefs bad enough to get Twitter’s famously hands-off moderators to act. Nobody got blocked for advocating for smaller government, business-friendly policies, or talking about their religious or family values – it was threats of violence, slurs, targeted harassment, election misinformation, etc. None of the conservatives I know would claim those as defining their beliefs, and they’d be rather insulted to have you define them that way.
Surely you can provide specific details of this alleged censorship? It was heavily covered here but even pretty conservative people didn’t see it living up to the PR claims.
Hunter Biden’s laptop was all anyone was talking about for days. They blocked non-consensual nudity but that’s consistent with long-running policy and had no impact on the political aspects any more than we needed to see Trump and Daniels in action to discuss whether payoffs were appropriate.
> you just defined conservatism as the beliefs bad enough to get Twitter’s famously hands-off moderators to act.
This sort of disingenuous reply really isn’t helpful. The GP was clearly accusing Twitter of enforcing their TOS for righty accounts, while not enforcing their TOS when lefty accounts would do similar things.
I don’t think they are correct, but your rhetoric is just going to alienate people and makes your argument look weaker.
Can you provide any examples? The poster rather has been rather conspicuously unable to do so, which is hard to reconcile with the broad policy they’re claiming, especially when there are counter examples of accounts which were not blocked because Twitter gave more leeway to political accounts.
The reason is simple: the things which got those accounts closed weren’t traditional conservative positions, and there were plenty of lefty/hard to classify accounts which were also suspended or banned for similar reasons but nobody is sticking up for their behavior and claiming it represents their larger political group.
Dude, you realize we can see the timestamps of your messages? You’re replying to a message left 4 hours ago claiming that something you wrote 2 hours later somehow contradicts it.
Now, as to that specific claim since you actually provided details we can see that it doesn’t support the claim. It’s a single account, not the imagined campaign account conservatives, and Twitter changed their policy around hacked materials specifically to allow what the NYPost did:
Again, nobody is saying that Twitter was perfect but there just isn’t evidence supporting the belief that they ran a discrimination campaign against conservatives. Even the much ballyhooed “Twitter Files” fizzled because it made it clear that they bent over backwards accommodating political figures.
Yeah, I think the current phrase for this is "delulu".
I give you an example but apparently its not the example you wanted. You expect me to list every right wing account that got pulled? The Babylon Bee got banned as well if that helps you get a grip on reality.
The twitter files never fizzled out, except in the NYT. This is just your unfounded assertion. They were literally a smoking gun.
Twitter took 14 days to change their policy re the Hunter Laptop to slow roll the story breaking fully before the presidential election.
