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They were never banned only suspended, and there's nothing in the link to indicate that they've been un-suspended from posting.

From last week proof that they weren't banned: https://web.archive.org/web/20221019005155/https://twitter.c...

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They were suspended with a little Maoist struggle session setup that they were required to go through to repent their sins, and included is an admission that they were sinners for doing it, in order to get their account back.

You left that very important part out.

They had to delete the tweet which awarded a specific named transwoman "man of the year award". The tweet was cruel identity-based harassment and not worthy of defense, but it for some reason seems to have radicalized a certain segment of the tech elite. In fact it may very well have been the inciting event that led to Musk's purchase of twitter.

Anyway, having to delete your harassment tweet in order to keep tweeting is not a Maoist struggle session

Twitter could have just deleted it for them. But no, they literally went to the trouble of building and testing code where you have to delete your own tweet, and part of doing is to so admit that what you did was "wrong". This is a textbook Maoist struggle session.

I don't know, sounds more like a Christian process than a Maoist one.

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