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by boardwaalk 1303 days ago
> I'm kind of disappointed that the EFF never issued a correction or retraction for this claim.

What kind of correction or retraction would you be looking for? That is explicitly Twitter policy[1].

Trump may have eventually crossed a line. That doesn't mean his line was in the same place as other people's.

[1] https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/public-intere...

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Also someone proved this experimentally just by tweeting out the same things that Trump did and got banned https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/bot-banned-from-...
Of course the line isn't the same for everyone. Some people (such as presidents) are a lot more influential and consequential than others. Nobody cares what Joe Random thinks about something and if he crosses a line nobody cares if he's silenced.

Trump isn't the only one who had a different line, though his was probably looser than anyone else got. Any celebrity or public figure is going to have more leeway in what he or she is allowed to say.