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>There are many more cases of deletions than banned ones, let's not think of the exception as the rule

But that isn't the exception. Banned users tend to be the ones that have some level of public interest, as evidenced by the VOX quote.

>And the blog author still has the text as well

That's right and maybe in some way this new policy accidentally leads to good things, in that it may incentive sites that embed Twitter's content on their page, to simply bypass that.