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> But political affiliation is not a protected class.

Perhaps these bans are happening not because of political affiliation but due to the messages these particular people (e.g., Trump) are espousing.

Parler go banned because it's full of message calling for (e.g.) Mike Pence to be hanged and other such things, and Parler isn't / can't do much about it, and its infrastructure providers (AWS, app stores) do not want any part of it per their ToS.

No one has cut off Mitch McConnell because he hasn't been calling forth angry mobs to storm Congress (or the White House).

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Maxine Waters called for her supporters to harass government officials. She’s still on Twitter. A Bernie Sanders supporter ambushed and shot a US Congressman and yet no penalties to various Sanders organizations. Supporters of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard are on Twitter. Mumia Abu-Jamal, a convicted murderer of cops is even on Twitter! AOC stormed and occupied Pelosi’s office in a climate protest in the Capitol and she’s on Twitter.

Notice a pattern? Left wing heroes can say anything they want and Twitter doesn’t ban them.

Your rather terse language is doing a lot of heavy lifting for those false equivalences. Applying the rationale behind Twitter's recent decision to these other cases is an exercise I shall leave to others.

Twitter is flooded with calls for violence 24/7. Exclusively left wing celebrities openly call for violence all the time on there, nobody does anything about it. That has been going on for the past four years non-stop.

Actor Peter Fonda called for violently assaulting Trump's underage child on Twitter in 2018 (his account was not permanently banned), and that's very typical posting from leftist celebrities on Twitter these past four years.

Thousands of violent posts were in the "Hang Mike Pence" Twitter trend that was going on the other day. People have been openly calling for executions for treason and similar on Twitter in relation to the Capitol riots. There was widespread cheering and celebrating when that woman got shot in the neck by Capitol Police, I read thousands of Tweets that were literally cheering for her death, all on Twitter, and nobody gives a fuck.

The double standard by Twitter is beyond disgusting. It's psychopath behavior.

> Thousands of violent posts were in the "Hang Mike Pence" Twitter trend that was going on the other day.

That trended because Trump supporters built a gallows and chanted “Hang Mike Pence” at the Capitol on Wednesday.

Twitter still allowed the hashtag.

Twitter halted the hash tag:

* https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-stops-hang-mike-pence-trend...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25704588

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