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Twitter has no place classifying what is right and what is wrong. I sincerely hope this trend backfires on them.

Twitter has three options:

1. Do not classify anything as out of bounds. After the 6th, they decided they didn't like the results of that approach.

2. Classify out-there right-wing things as out of bounds.

3. Classify out-there stuff as out of bounds, no matter who it comes from.

If they aren't going to do option 1, option 3 is more reasonable than option 2. And if they're going to do option 3, the Chinese Embassy post seemed like really good grounds for locking someone's account.

>Classify out-there right-wing things as out of bounds.

Why not include out-there left-wing things, or are left wing things always okay?

The previous poster was saying that in response to storming the US Capitol building, Twitter can either: 1) ignore it, 2) respond to this specific instance (right wing extremism), or 3) respond to all inappropriate uses of their platform (which would include left wing extremism).

They are literally sterilizing a minority population. I think Twitter should be able to call balls and strikes on their own platform especially when it comes to government sponsored propaganda before its too late (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide).

https://apnews.com/article/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c

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