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by sabizmil 2667 days ago
I had a very similar reaction and was surprised to see the difference between Vijaya and Dorsey responding to his claims with documents and first-hand knowledge, just for him to rattle off some news articles that are making claims without any tangible proof other than 'well this guy says he was banned for no reason'. I don't blindly believe what Vijaya and Dorsey are saying but to put your faith into articles and hearsay doesn't seem to be any better.

There were also times that he made a series of assumptions leading up to a question and it left Vijaya and Dorsey to somehow demolish every assumption because he wasn't satisfied with the answers they gave.

For example, at one point he explains how he thinks Twitter is such a big influence and at such odds with the US laws that they are facing regulation to allow 'free speech' on a 'private-public' platform (his words, not mine) and kept digging into this point without considering that his fundamental assumptions are wrong (Twitter is a monopoly and should be using US free speech laws as their basis for content moderation). Instead he just keeps getting more frustrated as they can't answer the question without first addressing the assumptions that made him ask the question in the first place.