Whatever your perspective, directly verifiable censorship like this is just begging for legal trouble and monopoly investigations. Tactically speaking, I would say this is a massive mistake from Twitter.
You...you mean screaming at the NY post for printing itself? Yes, people do that constantly.
I think I agree that this article shouldn't have been blocked partially because it don't fit perfectly into this distinction
Bonus second reason why people might feel differently. People know and treat the NY Post as suspect. People like me don't read it. Probably some advertisers won't touch it, but I do use Twitter and FB. Most people do. They are arguably natural monopolies
Virality. Information spreads in a fundamentally different way over print [1] versus social media. It spreads faster. It spreads more insidiously. And it mutates--not per se, but in the context attached to it.
There is also social media's concentration. Before cable news, broadcast television was held to stringent standards. As competition emerged that went away. Facebook and Twitter are singular in their domains. Holding them to a higher standard while an election is underway seems reasonable.
[1] A newspaper on a website still behaves like print media. It has to be explicitly shared.
NY Post has always been trash and will always remain trash
Fingers crossed.
If Biden loses. If he wins, it might very well do the opposite.
Did everyone suddenly turn into a free speech nut this morning?