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by fortuna86 1797 days ago
> Except for the ones who are banned for violating the “Twitter Rules.”

This reminds me of criticisms of "metoo". Yes, i'm sure someone somewhere got a raw deal. But as far as I can see the people banished deserve it, and the overall ecosystem is better for it.

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So you think SciHub deserves it? And that we’re better off without their voice?

Obviously, you’re free to think what you like but this seems like a sad and limited worldview. Assuming that everything removed from my perception deserves to be removed.

I don't know. For what it's worth, the account is back and the entire basis for this conversation (a perm suspension) is null and void.

The system largely works, from what I can see. Getting thrown off Twitter for 24h isn't that bad of a mistake even, given the scale of the challenge they face to enforce their TOS to billions of accounts.