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Behind the Scenes of a Twitter Censorship

8 pointsby jjslocum3over 2 years ago

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jjslocum3over 2 years ago
This does verge on political - nevertheless it's an interesting look at how a powerful Pfizer board member was able to get a Pfizer critic banned from the platform.
rvzover 2 years ago
A wonderful and a spectacular display of collusion from the state and a board member of a large pharmaceutical giant to target and purposefully ban someone for being skeptical of the vaccine.<p>Before you say <i>&#x27;but but private platform can do that&#x27;</i>, <i>&#x27;Terms of service violations blah blah blah&#x27;</i>:<p>&gt; I filed a federal lawsuit over the ban against Twitter in San Francisco in December. In July Twitter settled the suit, restored my account, and admitted it had been wrong to suspend me.<p>So even Twitter knew they were wrong in their judgement to censor him, but with the intervention of the state and an external corporate board member, and looking at the emails in the lawsuit tells us that they pressed and forced Twitter to ban him for vague reasons again.<p>So one is not allowed to criticize them even if they are making billions off of it? That and the censorship collusion happening here, is not a &#x27;conspiracy theory&#x27;.