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Twitter isn't censoring the vast majority of people. One group will be the vast majority of people who don't get kicked off Twitter. The other group will be a relatively tiny collection of extremists.

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https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1347898774891491332 Glenn Greenwald says they are leaving in droves (or are being kicked out, not sure on that).

Interesting. Is anyone with a shred of credibility confirming that?

Actually Glenn Greenwald is the most credible journalist in my opinion. Who speaks to power no matter what.

I have a word with right wing friends. For years and years you supported removal Palestinian activists from Twitter or any other platform. I think you understand what it feels.

For those who are keep downvoting me.

It just shows you are fucking imbecile and/or ignorant. Keep censoring people, I am eager to see how that is going to work for you.

We've banned this account for obvious reasons, and if you keep creating accounts to abuse HN we will ban your main account as well. No more of this please.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.

Actually MEMRI has been quoting some of these Palestinian activists, and has been censored by youtube in return: https://www.memri.org/reports/youtube-censors-memri-removes-...

It’s because they banned a boatload of accounts that were dedicated to Qanon. A few high profile ones and a ton of others.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna12...

Seems like they are combing profile key words and punting users the last 24 hours. Harmless phrases, acronyms from words Kennedy said. Nothing hateful or inciting but does label them as identifying with a certain spirit or community.

I don't understand something: wouldn't that be extremely bad for twitter? i mean they need subscribers for pushing their advertising, or so i was told.

Not if they are a cost center for the propaganda machine. In Soviet Union no one cared how much Pravda earned from the subscriptions, since it was not their purpose.

I think they are fighting for survival, they might be taking this court action that was pushed by some ten republican states very seriously - this case has a strong legal basis. I suspect that its all business.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/google-su...

There were three people with Trump flags in my neighborhood on Monday. Those people all took their flags down.

Another explanation is that centrists are simply unfollowing right wing sites. I generally have tried to keep informed across the political spectrum, but I’ve definitely been less inclined to look at right leaning stuff since the Capitol Riot.

Twitter isn't going after extremists at all. Terrorists continue to post on Twitter right now. Totalitarian regimes carrying out genocide continue to tweet happily away on Twitter.

This is about going after anyone they think they should ban in order to keep the Democrats happy.

This is not about Trump for the technology companies. It's about bending the knee enough towards the Democrats to ensure that they retain as much of their freedom as possible. They are sacrificing others' freedoms in order to hopefully secure they own - although I think this is a Faustian bargain.

You do know that the Republicans repeatedly dragged tech CEOs in front of their kangaroo courts to air their entirely fabricated grievances, right? Why would technology companies be worried about Democrats after surviving four years of that?

Aren't the antitrust cases just getting going?

Hopefully.

This. Malaysian ex-PM tweets that Muslims "have 'right' to kill French". Despite the outrage he's still free to tweet. Twitter cares about its image and its advertisers.

Twitter is an American company. Americans don't care about what happens anywhere else. Don't complicate it.

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