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The real hilarious thing to me scrolling this sometime later is everyone is focused on Biden when the thread says the Trump team were doing the same thing and he was the President at the time! But crickets over that much stronger claim that it could be a first amendment violation.

Are people just being partisan or easily manipulated here?

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Twitter’s censorship and selective enforcement of TOS to remove content was heavily slanted in favor of Democrats.

So? Even if that’s true we’re talking about accusations of violating the first amendment. If people accuse Biden of that when he wasn’t even in government surely it’s much worse that the sitting President at the time Trump did the same thing.

The fact that you bring up something tangential instead pretty much shows how people don’t want to treat this rationally.

Was Twitter biased, is Fox biased etc. doesn’t seem particularly relevant.

I wonder what it would look like if we strongly regulated news carriers to affect a particular partisan balance. If we had panels approve content-killing rules like terms of service. If the President could close down Twitter that way.

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