* I'm not a liberal but..
* I'm not a conservative but..
* Twitter may be a private company, but..
* Freedom of speech but...
If there is a new view point on how to analytically break such news down that would be great to hear indeed!
The black box is always going to optimize for the worst aspects of humanity. The best aspects simply aren’t worth enough money.
US voters want to express themselves but they lack information and critical thinking;
Not all information is good; Journalism is dying and the advertising business distorts people's perceptions for profit;
Taxes are needed but the lucid, rational discourse needed to make good public policy is absent;
It is hard to cultivate the citizenry in the above conditions; the political system is starved of courageous and intelligent politicians; panderers have a significant demographic to exploit.
tldr: US public discourse has attained a toxic equilibrium. But it is profitable for some.
Trump told what are generally considered incorrect opinions on corona virus prevention. Eg: Hydroxy Chloroquine works, masks don't and so on...
His followers then parroted and posted these comments on social media and were promptly defunded, suspended and even banned for breaking Eula terms. Because Covid is serious and far too important to risk endangering others lives with misinformation like that...fair enough.
The campaign rolls on only now a significant portion of Trump's most vocal supporters are no longer able to voice their support and encourage people to vote for him due to being punished for spreading false info that Trump told them regarding Covid, or is that the real reason? Maybe the plan was to silence the right's voice all along but Covid presented itself at an oppertune time, the left leaning social media companies took full advantage and Trump and his followers walked right into the trap!
Could that be why right wing supporters might want to find a new forum to express themselves? Somewhere that they wont have their voices taken away right before an election that they feel passionate about?
Just a different thought from an outside observer with no skin in the game.
Most of the vocal support for political candidates comes from the minority of voters, on both sides. That doesn't change the situation.
The point is wether real or not there is a perception that powers that control social media are activist, woke or whatever other lable You want to give them.
These are private companies, right wing supporters do not believe in heavy handed government, so what else are they to do but find new venues to expresd their views? Do You realky expect them to just shut up and take it? That will never happen.
Social media is neither Left nor Right leaning, nor are the rules. But if the people enforcing said rules have bias, then problems arise, isn't that the point BLM was making about the Police?
I'm sure they do want a forum to express their views and claim they're silenced. But they need to stop and think about why everyone else has deemed them so toxic.
You're right about hitting a subject they cared about..that's right now I remember it was HB's laptop story that brought about the bannings.
Check and Mate I guess. Good luck sorting that mess out, hopefully You get a few weeks rest after the Georgia runnoffs before the campaigns start up again but I fear the media has found a cash cow in political outrage and will be milking it for every drop from now until the endof time(or twitter).