https://twitter.com/BenBurgis/status/1347966744166596608

  • grisbajskulor [he/him]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    It’s not dumb! I totally agree with you, and I think hate speech / speech inciting violence has good reasons to be stopped.

    I think more than anything it’s a symptom of the capitalist hellscape that this censoring of the literal president came from a private company, not democrats or republicans. A lot of people are saying “womp it’s just Twitter who cares” but it was his most used comms method, and he’s effectively shut up since.

    So I generally do support the ban, but I don’t support the libertarian/fash techlords that did it.

    • Randomdog [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah you're totally right. I think everyone arguing against you is making good points, but at the core of the issue it is SCARY that a private company with zero accountability can censor an elected leader.

      Yes he's a bad president, but this sets a bad precedent.

      • itsPina [he/him, she/her]
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        4 years ago

        if twitter were a chinese company censoring Xi their CEO would be fucking executed which is 100% unironically a good thing