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> Twitter is structured in such a way that direct censorship can't be differentiated between

Twitter provides data to researchers, at least in some situations, and may provide data about these events.

> Differentiating between "left" and "right" political posts is not possible from an objective, programmatic standpoint.

AFAIK, there are well-known methods in political science for defining left and right.

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> > Differentiating between "left" and "right" political posts is not possible from an objective, programmatic standpoint.

> AFAIK, there are well-known methods in political science for defining left and right.

Small problem: political science isn't computer science.

Let alone a 'science'.

> Twitter provides data to researchers, at least in some situations, and may provide data about these events.

Small problem: if the data they provide to the public can't be trusted, then why would the data provided to scientists be any better?

They send tweets in real-time to data miners. The delete requests don't show up until later. All you need to do is break their terms of service by not honoring the deletes

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