[koheripbal]

I think Twitter has put itself in an impossible situation.

By banning certain politicians, it now has to maintain consistency... which means banning thousands more globally.... which means making itself irrelevant to huge swaths of the global population.

It's no longer a ubiquitous utility. ... but that's what people want. they don't want their toaster to judge what food they make.

They've doomed themselves.

[ljw1001]

> that’s what people want

It’s not what I want. I don’t want my social network promoting violence anymore than I want my toast poisoning my family.

[bobjordan]

If a post author is promoting violence, lay the blame with the post author, not the social network. As I understand it the legal basis and protections for the network using this simple valid logic already exists. They’ve been operating with this protection for years now. What has changed is the increased appetite for authoritarianism from many of a particular political persuasion.

[koheripbal]

You have a choice to put poison in your toaster and kill yourself, just like you have the choice to not read hate-speech if you don't want to.

If you don't think you, as an adult, are capable of seeing hate-speech without disregarding it, then you should use a child-friendly platform.

[BitwiseFool]

I'm skeptical that Twitter cares about consistency. The company is run by Bay Area progressives and I doubt the Democrats in congress want to do anything to stop Twitter from going after right wing accounts. Sure, the conservative people will try to leave for an alternative but I think the majority of average people will just stay on twitter and the net effect will be that the platform will lurch even farther to the left.