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Extremist is ... not useful. Yes he supports (not 100% even) Trump, but extremist ? Be serious.

I think the point of the article is that twitter is randomized shadowbanning (visible to 1% or so of people who explicitly look at his account actually see his posts) based on political viewpoints.

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He is extremist. Again, it's clear from the moderators that quoting his extremist statements is undesireable, but it limits our conversation.

You can find the quotes in this discussion if you know how to look:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13604551

Quotes can be used for different purposes. I suspect that you can use a quote in a civil, constructive way as an example, though it might just be better to find a reference to point to.

In the case you're referring to here, the commenter was intentionally bringing up an inflammatory quote to discredit the parent comment, taking the thread completely off track from what had been a relatively civil discussion, which is what the mod pointed out (as did other commenters in the thread).

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