The problem isn't that Twitter takes down content from NAZIs and white supremacists. The problem is that @Jack Dorsey's Twitter Thought Police subtly skew what you read, by quietly shadowbanning, deboosting, and omitting from your feed tweets from responsible conservatives & Republicans... who happen to disagree with @Jack.
The Twitter Thought Police don't usually delete the things with which @Jack would disagree. They just don't show them to nearly as many people as they do the things which his fellow leftists tweet.
That's how most leftists prefer to "debate" -- by censorship, and well-poisoning. Their modus operandi is to silence other opinions, rather than refute them. It's presumably because they've learned the hard way that that's they only way they can "win" many arguments. Open dialogue and respectful argumentation don't tend to work very well for them, because facts and evidence seem to have a conservative bias.
Unfortunately, such censorship is a dagger to the heart of democracy. Who needs Russians to hack our elections, when we have @Jack and his ilk?
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The problem with Twitter isn't they take down extremist hate
The problem isn't that Twitter takes down content from NAZIs and white supremacists. The problem is that @Jack Dorsey's Twitter Thought Police subtly skew what you read, by quietly shadowbanning, deboosting, and omitting from your feed tweets from responsible conservatives & Republicans... who happen to disagree with @Jack.
The Twitter Thought Police don't usually delete the things with which @Jack would disagree. They just don't show them to nearly as many people as they do the things which his fellow leftists tweet.
That's how most leftists prefer to "debate" -- by censorship, and well-poisoning. Their modus operandi is to silence other opinions, rather than refute them. It's presumably because they've learned the hard way that that's they only way they can "win" many arguments. Open dialogue and respectful argumentation don't tend to work very well for them, because facts and evidence seem to have a conservative bias.
Unfortunately, such censorship is a dagger to the heart of democracy. Who needs Russians to hack our elections, when we have @Jack and his ilk?
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