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Apparently you can also violate the Twitter guidelines without being banned only if you are Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran who has done this for years, here is an example of him calling for violence to 'destroy' another country: [0]

Twitter really has one rule for some individuals and another rule for many. There is no justification for any of this from the big tech appeasers.

[0] https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1263749566744100864

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> Twitter really has one rule for some individuals and another rule for many. There is no justification for any of this from the big tech appeasers.

Huh? Twitter has explicitly justified differential treatment for different kinds of users -- particularly in the name of public interest. Their rules and policies site has a page titled, "About public-interest exceptions on Twitter":

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/public-intere...

> At present, we limit exceptions to one critical type of public-interest content—Tweets from elected and government officials—given the significant public interest in knowing and being able to discuss their actions and statements.

> As a result, in rare instances, we may choose to leave up a Tweet from an elected or government official that would otherwise be taken down.

Yeah, vague "we may choose for undisclosed reasons" rules are the best way to say "we'll do whatever we feel like, mostly depending on whether we agree with the tweet".

Precisely, and this policy was implemented not because of Khamenei, but Trump.

Strictly speaking, the wording isn't a call to violence. It's more like a prediction.

It’s rather extreme case of passive-aggressive — someone, who knows who, will do the salutary job of uprooting and destroying.

"Stochastic terrorism"

Do you think someone should be banned for saying something like:

The Nazi regime is a deadly, cancerous growth and a detriment to this region. It will undoubtedly be uprooted and destroyed. Then, the shame will fall on those who put their facilities at the service of normalization of relations with this regime.

Coincidentally, the Nazis also spread lies about Jews murdering children. I'm sure if Twitter had been around, you would've seen similar Tweets coming from them, for very much the same reasons.

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