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faefoxyesterday at 6:00 PM

You can tell conservative opinions are censored and suppressed by the way they're constantly shoved down our throats every hour of every day.

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MSFT_Edgingyesterday at 5:59 PM

Those "conservative opinions" were usually violent hate speech. There was no shortage of "conservative opinions" pre-buyout.

I think people were just upset certain figures were held to the TOS.

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ethanrutherfordyesterday at 6:25 PM

claiming there was rampant "censorship of conservative opinions" is about as honest as claiming that the Romans were being persecuted by first century christians.

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deathanatosyesterday at 6:19 PM

They … did, though?

You're presumably referencing Missouri v. Biden, to which the EFF did file an amicus[1]. In it, they note,

> Many platforms have potentially problematic “trusted flagger” programs in which certain groups and individuals enjoy “some degree of priority in the processing of notices

> Of course, governmental participation in content moderation processes raises First Amendment issues not present with non-governmental inputs

With their overall opinion being something like "content moderation is normal, the government flagging content is also normal, and there are instances where the government's flagging of content moderation can be fine & not run afoul of 1A, but there are instances where it can, and we urge the court to think"

Note in this case, the platform was removing the content. The government was, in one respect, merely asking. (There were assertions that in other instances, such as public statements, the case was less so.) The court eventually ruled, and the ruling I saw from the 5th circuit seemed reasonable. (I think that was a preliminary injunction. AIUI, the case as a whole was never ruled on, because the Trump administration took over.)

[1]: https://www.eff.org/document/missouri-v-biden-amicus-brief

0123456789ABCDEyesterday at 6:09 PM

care to share some quotes from those "conservative opinions" that were censored?

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triceratopsyesterday at 6:34 PM

Which ones?

surgical_fireyesterday at 6:08 PM

What censorship?

Conservative talking points were fucking everywhere, and still are.

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MallocVoidstaryesterday at 6:15 PM

Yeah, I remember when the "Twitter Files" were being released and it turned out that Twitter was illegitimately censoring leaked nudes of Hunter Biden. Whyever would non-consensually posted nudes be taken down other than the suppression of conservatism?

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mghackerladyyesterday at 6:01 PM

Conservative opinions like "[group of people] are evil and don't deserve to be happy" and "we need a white homeland"

If you aren't kicking nazis out of your bar, it'll become a nazi bar. Twitter stopped kicking out the nazis

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