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Animats ◴[] No.23347437[source]
Twitter policy:

"We start from a position of assuming that people do not intend to violate our Rules. Unless a violation is so egregious that we must immediately suspend an account, we first try to educate people about our Rules and give them a chance to correct their behavior. We show the violator the offending Tweet(s), explain which Rule was broken, and require them to remove the content before they can Tweet again. If someone repeatedly violates our Rules then our enforcement actions become stronger. This includes requiring violators to remove the Tweet(s) and taking additional actions like verifying account ownership and/or temporarily limiting their ability to Tweet for a set period of time. If someone continues to violate Rules beyond that point then their account may be permanently suspended."

Somewhere a counter was just incremented. It's going to be amusing if Twitter management simply lets the automated system do its thing. At some point, after warnings, the standard 48-hour suspension will trigger. Twitter management can simply simply say "it is our policy not to comment on enforcement actions".

They've suspended the accounts of prominent people many times before.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_suspensions

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fortran77 ◴[] No.23352351[source]
It depends on who and what. And it's the inconsistency that will fuel the critics.

They didn't suspend Spike Lee who caused direct harm to a private individual who happened to share a name with an infamous individual: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/spike-lee-settles-twi...

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Simulacra[dead post] ◴[] No.23352397[source]
Because suspending Spike Lee would have required someone at Twitter to make that decision, and they're not going to do that. But will leap at the chance for Trump. It's been a clear double standard for years.
pknopf ◴[] No.23352421[source]
Plenty of left-leaning people get banned as well.
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Simulacra ◴[] No.23352460[source]
But not for tweets of violence, and they're not getting fact-checked like Trump.
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mthoms ◴[] No.23352636[source]
Speaking of fact checking. Please cite your source on this. Thanks.
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Simulacra ◴[] No.23352775[source]
You mean like Spike Lee?

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/trayvon-martin-spike-...

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1. tomnipotent ◴[] No.23353039[source]
Your single example is from eight years ago and long before the current fact checking policy?