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by pauldenton 943 days ago
Techdirt/ Mike Masnick also repeatedly claims there is no disproportionate censorship and that Democrats and Republicans get censored an equal amount. He's very much been in a Silicon Valley bubble since 2016
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I don't think he's ever claimed there is equal amounts of censorship - which would only be possible if both sides were equally promoting TOS-breaking posts - what he, and basically everyone who has ever studied 'censorship' of this type have found, is that Republicans do indeed have more posts removed, but largely due to them relentlessly promoting all sorts of wacky shit against the tech company TOS's. If Ds started posting revenge porn of Ivanka Trump in the same quantity as Rs posted the Hunter Biden pics - they'd all be removed as well, and rightfully so!