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by azinman2 2306 days ago
Let’s be clear. The “conservative” voices that have been moderated out not because of the PC police, but because of obvious reasons that violate ToS (spreading racism, inciting violence, etc). Look over [1] and show me this consistent “abuse of power”.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_suspensions
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klipt 2306 days ago
There are a lot of misandrist "men are trash" posters on Twitter that haven't been banned: https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/menaretrash?lang=en

Unless they're equally blasé about "women are trash" posters, seems their enforcement against sexism is only one sided?

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azinman2 2306 days ago
I don’t work for twitter so I can’t speak for them. Trump is still on twitter saying all kinds of horrible things, and I can only presume many others are as well. I’m not sure what triggers crossing a line, but I don’t agree with this accusation of some great anti-conservative conspiracy. I see this often in reaction to Alex Jones who spreads all kinds of false lies that have lead to violence.

Note it’s not like there are humans evaluating each and every tweet so it’s going to be inconsistency applied.

I also find it interesting that since posting on HN someone is trying to reset my Facebook account. Talk about censorship...

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sneak 2306 days ago
Google are also taking down educational gunsmithing and hacking videos, and remixes of music videos and music that people have made—fair use.

Reddit has been censoring their less mainstream-friendly BDSM porn subreddits. To appear on most of the site your subreddit has to be whitelisted, now.

It’s not just politics. They are defining broad guidelines of what categories of (legal) things you are allowed to publish or not.

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