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by ModernMech 1283 days ago
If Twitter had a far left moderating bias, explain how Donald Trump remained on the platform for years while repeatedly and unapologetically violating the TOS. It took him using the platform to launch a failed coup to get him banned.

Very hard to buy that the platform was a political tool of Democrats when it was being used effectively as a political tool by the leader of the Republican party.
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hyperdunc 1283 days ago
He was POTUS, that's why. And still they got rid of him as soon as they could. Less well known figures got booted for less.
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ModernMech 1283 days ago
He was POTUS when they got rid of him too. He also wasn’t POTUS while he violated the TOS before he got elected. So your reasoning doesn’t follow

All you’ve done here is confirmed that Trump, a conservative right-wing politician, got treated better by the supposedly biased left-wing Twitter mods than anyone else on the platform. He violated the Twitter TOS daily and got a free pass over and over again by Twitter mods. Really cuts against the “left-wing bias” narrative you’re pushing here imo.

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