Twitter stated that its staff still believed that the tweet in question violated the rules. “The video contained a violent threat directed at Leader McConnell, a clear violation of the Twitter Rules.” After “reviewing the case more closely,” Twitter decided to leave the video up, but “with a sensitive media interstitial and only in cases where the Tweet content does not otherwise violate the Twitter Rules.”
So the video will still be censored by Twitter. The only thing that changed is that Team Mitch will not be suspended for posting it.
The Republican Senate came out in full force in support of McConnell today. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) said in an interview with Pete Mundo “The idea that Twitter would censor and punish Mitch McConnell for a bunch of threats that a bunch of liberal wackos made against his life... I mean, it's really extraordinary stuff."
But if you’re a poor unknown, they will squash you and your business like a bug.
Color me skeptical.
I’d like to be setting the bar for victory higher than them acting reasonable for a news cycle.
Restoring McConnell’s account is not good enough. Twitter must be fined/punished somehow for even suspending the account when all he was pointing out was that someone was threatening him. They must be punished for doing that. It was intentional.
Mitch is putting gun control front and center. Can we request to have his account locked again?
But TWITTER does NOT take down BLM posts!!
Would Twitter have banned the account if the same video had been posted by the Antifa thugs bragging about their threat against McConnell?