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by FeepingCreature 1747 days ago
Those are different people though? I don't think you can make everyone happy.
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They are more often than not the same people. An example off the top of my head:

Florida governor signs bill barring social media companies from blocking political candidates - May 24, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/24/florida...

[Florida governor] applauds fired whistleblower’s Twitter suspension, the latest in an ongoing feud - June 7, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/07/rebekah-j...

They can be the same people. A mentality of "delete the things I don't like, but you better not touch the things I do like"
Oh, sometimes those are the same people. Offense giving and offense taking can both be used strategically by the same group.

See e.g. the book "Hate Spin" on religious hate speech which explicitly deals with this two-sided phenomenon.