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by Covzire 1330 days ago
For some context, and why some believe that Babylon Bee's suspension was the catalyst for Musk buying Twitter:

Twitter is the defacto online public square for a great number of people in politics, journalism, academia and many other fields.

Twitter's TOS was, for whatever reason, deliberately written to disenfranchise half the voter base, half the country more or less by making it so simply expressing deeply held political or religious views would get half of them banned.

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"half the country" overstates things. Roughly 40% of Americans believe that trans rights are good, roughly 30% believe they are bad, and 30% are undecided.

I'd argue that if Twitter has a liberal bias, it reflects the mostly majority opinions. (Speaking as a leftist whose friends are constantly banned for trivial nonsense, Twitter also hates the left. Not the Democrats, they aren't leftist.)

What the 40% figure your citing might represent and what 'woke inc' are actually pushing in legislature and in medicine are most certainly two very different things.
“Trans rights are good/bad” is a very vague statement. What exactly did the survey ask?