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Twitter is so safe in comparison...

i think the difference is likely that twitter makes genuine, good-faith attempts at mitigating calls for violence.

> twitter makes genuine, good-faith attempts at mitigating calls for violence.

...when they're made by people with the wrong opinions or politics. Attackers from the left seem to get the benefit of the doubt.

I'd agree with this. I'm mostly left of center but occasionally I'll agree with something conservative. I've had horrible threats after those posts and Twitter did nothing.

can you show us example tweets where the left has called for violence where they have remained up?

After years of intemperate tweets, Twitter decided to ban Trump on January 6th because of a video when he was talking people to stand down and go back home. I saw the video.

Why?

That video could have prevented the mob from trespassing the congress building.

Twitter's recounting of the story disagrees with you:

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...

I'll take their word over yours.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32688746

What word? They don't supply any evidence regarding this discussion in your linked page.

i’m not sure that is an accurate timeline of what actually happened—at least from what i’ve read.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32688746

But he was banned 2 days after the attack? Not to mention that he is still talking about stolen election.

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...

On Jan 6th the tweet/video I'm referring to was removed and Trump couldn't post any more tweets.

Maybe that is called freezing the account instead of banning it? IDK.

He had been talking about the "stolen election" for months. It's hard to say that is the reason why they deleted that particular post, especially when it could have potentially defused a dangerous situation.

Can't reply to parents new message, but you can read twitter blog link or check trumparchive to see that trump posted on 7th and 8th day.

But you can see on trumparchive that the "Go home" tweet from Jan 6th was deleted, and that Trump wasn't allowed to post until Jan 7th.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32688746

Here is the tweet. Unfortunately this website (1) doesn't store the video:

"""

These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!

"""

As you can see on (1), that particular tweet is deleted, it cannot be further reached. Trump goes on with the "stolen election" line, nothing new there, the only new thing is: "Go home"

Wouldn't you like to that message to be transmitted to the Trump supporters at that exact time? Wasn't that precisely the message everyone needed? Who better than Trump to defuse that situation?

Why delete that tweet that day? When it was precisely the tweet that was needed? Can someone explain this?

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(1) https://www.thetrumparchive.com

Lol what was precisely needed was "I lost the election, I know I lost the election, sorry I lied to all of you, sorry I didn't send this tweet 2 months ago when I lost the election, sorry I didn't send this message 2 weeks ago instead of encouraging you all to come here and "be wild", sorry I didn't say any of this during my speech this morning, sorry I sent that tweet at 2 pm that Mike Pence was a coward, sorry I just sat in the White House as the President of the United Statds of America for 5 hours while this shit went down and did absolutely nothing."

What he sent was garbage and only sent because his coup failed.

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