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Comment by mellosouls | Hacker News Reader

I did a quick fact-check on your post here by googling quillette twitter cancel

These are among the first articles that come up and note that none of them are Nazis, just people bucking the weird dictats of what was allowed to be said at the time.

Twitter's Trans-Activist Decree

https://quillette.com/2018/11/28/twitters-trans-activist-dec...

Ending Discrimination by Twitter

https://quillette.com/2022/11/28/ending-discrimination-on-tw...

Why I'm Suing Twitter

https://quillette.com/2019/02/26/why-im-suing-twitter/

Think Cancel Culture Doesn’t Exist? My Own ‘Lived Experience’ Says Otherwise

https://quillette.com/2020/07/30/think-cancel-culture-doesnt...

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https://quillette.com/2019/02/12/it-isnt-your-imagination-tw...

https://web.archive.org/web/20230118212512/https://www.richa...

https://web.archive.org/web/20220628153148/https://f621cf77-...

Didn't have it bookmarked; really didn't take that long to find it because it's literally the first search result: https://imgur.com/a/FZQ1D7b

That you simply repeat talking points in your "fact check" says a lot.

I read your link and it describes the suppression of conservative voices while far left voices posting genuine messages of hate were supported.

Surely you read your own link before posting it?

I've additionally given you several examples which counter your original claim that it's basically just Nazis whining about being cancelled, which you've dismissed flippantly.

This is a serious subject; if you can't address it in good faith I will leave it at that.

You really think this is a full comprehensive list of everyone that was banned, or that it's a highly cherry-picked list of examples? At the time people pointed out it missed many prominent left-wing bans that were excluded, but I can't be bothered to search for that now.

And maybe some more left-wing accounts should have been banned too; I don't know. I never claimed anything about this. I said that Quillette published an article that considered the American Nazi Party and similar far-right explicit Nazis and KKK members as "conservatives" that were being banned.

It's really not that hard to say "yeah, the American Nazi party probably should have been banned, it was a mistake to include that on that data-driven approach, as was the inclusion of David Duke and Richard Spencer".

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