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by dorkwood 1161 days ago
I’d like to hear more about this kind of thing. Has Twitter censored brands like this in the past?
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No. Not before Musk took over.

For one, it’s the kind of thing likely to get you sued for anti-competitive practices.

They banned NY Post for reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop and the contents showing "10% for the big guy" in reference to his father getting kickbacks on some shady Ukrainian and Chinese deals that Hunter facilitated.
Wrong. They suspended linking to the story for 24 hours - a story that had very shady sourcing and which the New York Post did not even put an author's name on.
Shady sourcing = the actual laptop and the contents which later proved to be 100% correct. Also, Zerohedge was banned for quite awhile for the same thing.