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Having a Twitter account is not a right.
If you incite violence on Twitter, the company can - and should - stop you. Good call.
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Always beware of powerful people pretending to be victims.
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That's the real story here.
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I don't trust them to get these decisions right, which is why I think they should have a heavy presumption in favor of leaving speech up--especially political leaders' speech. But if an official is truly inciting imminent violence, I don't see how they can justify not acting.
— Jameel Jaffer (@JameelJaffer) January 9, 2021
It also happens to human rights activists, too.
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You know what actually *is* a Free Speech issue around Twitter suspending people?
— Andrew James Carter (@Carter_AndrewJ) January 9, 2021
All the black, Jewish, Muslim, LGBTQ, women, and members of all other marginalised groups whose accounts have been wrongly removed due to baseless mass-reporting by those who hate them.
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Yes! And the Syrians, Iranians, Filipinos, Turks, Egyptians, Saudis, etc who have either been subject to bad sanctions law or these corporations' complicity with their autocratic leaders.
— Jillian C. York (@jilliancyork) January 9, 2021
More from Trump
I read part of the transcript of the Trump call.
— Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein) January 4, 2021
The following strikes me.
A) Trump is a true political outsider & the only one to reach the Presidency with zero government experience.
B) There is an obvious open institutional conspiracy to prevent any outsider gaining power.
If you look at the situation from a predictive models perspective instead of the more rigorous and appropriate (under normal circumstances) "prove your case or gtfo" perspective, trusting the opposite of whatever the left side says has an AMAZING track record, as we know it.
Literally, the best heuristic most people have right now, in terms of how often it gets things right versus *completely* wrong, is "whatever CNN, the NYT, public health officials, and the Democrats said... yeah, the opposite." That is, they're wrong WAY outside of statistics.
They're also not just wrong. They're *completely* wrong, backwards, often transparently covering something up that they don't want known or refuse to believe. This isn't just a legitimation crisis because there's a heuristic: whatever the official left narrative is, is wrong.
There are a few reasons why such a heuristic would be more predictive than not. One of those is conspiracy, and another is mass hysteria with ideological capture. We know at least one of those is happening and have rather strong evidence both are. That makes conspiracy reasonable