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by thrance 403 days ago
They changed their TOS recently to allow calling LGBT people "mentally ill" or saying racist slurs in an attempt to please the bigoted GOP.
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This was at least an year ago, maybe two.
They've been following their new TOS, but only when Trump became the president were they able to write down the TOS without fear of repercussion.

All the most successful political actors are able to selectively control the flow of information. They don't put their beliefs in the TOS until doing so confers an advantage to them. Once it does, they do. The TOS still doesn't contain all their rules - only the ones that are advantageous for them to announce publicly.