It’s a private company so they can ban whoever they like. Just like JR can ban anyone here.
On the other hand, I think being ethical will dictate Twitter would tell everyone the rules upfront.
Yes, but I do not think JR shadowbans posters...
Twitter is a publicly traded company
Precisely. JR is the one who exercise freedom of the press here; all others submit to his publish/ban decisions. Which he Publishes, and which he bans is what gives FR its character - and serves the particular audience FR attracts.On the other hand, I think being ethical will dictate Twitter would tell everyone the rules upfront.
The defining characteristic of a conservative site is that it is openly, frankly, conservative. This is actually a facet of the virtue known as humility, the opposite of the vice of arrogance. Most “liberals” (who are not politicians, at least) want to evade “the ‘L-word’.” Especially, of course, journalists. They are all about “No Labels,” for themselves.Conservatives lack the advantages of incumbency in journalism and, for that reason, have no option but to adopt the stance of the philosopher. Which is to express humility, and not claim wisdom but rather to love wisdom and be open to facts and logic. The “liberal,” having the advantage of the propaganda wind of journalism at his back, pretends to actual wisdom and denigrates the opposition. The belong to the party of “sophists” against whom the philosophers of Ancient Greece marshaled their facts and logic.
You are right that being ethical would dictate Twitter openness about its actual political imposition on posters. But since their “religion” is sophistry . . .