I understand what your premise is, that they have the rights under codes of conduct to remove what they deem to be “objectionable content”
So in the role they should seem to set a tone or standard about what is considered “questionable”. In their current model they seem to find anything posted under a conservative stream of thought to be questionable, and all things bizarre and Liberal is ok.
So I understand your premise that it is their site and their rules. And anything that does not fit their meme or line of thinking they will allow.
They backed off on Candace’s posts and called it a mistake in pulling her off the air. So what made them do this I ask you, it was not law although we have free speech, and when that is applied arbitrarily that is an uneven application. Someone or something is telling them they are going too far and that is why this put her back on
Time will tell
“They backed off on Candace’s posts and called it a mistake in pulling her off the air. So what made them do this I ask you, it was not law although we have free speech, and when that is applied arbitrarily that is an uneven application. Someone or something is telling them they are going too far and that is why this put her back on”
No one was pulled off the air.
The United States Constitution’s First Amendment makes no mention of Twitter.
They backed off because she is well known. There are many many of us out there that *do* have at least a shadowban enforced on us. I found that even questioning this practice to Twitter deserved no valid answer from them...in fact, they do not even make it easy to ask the question of them.
The idea I got when I asked about my own QFD (”Quality Filter Discrimination”) ban was that I was being shrugged off. It wasn’t important to them.
Most of the ones you see with a red X in their name (put there by the user) have been used to indicate that this user knows they are QFD banned. That’s me in the link below:
https://shadowban.eu/1983Mermaid
A QFD ban is not actually a suspended account, but it does affect user’s searches...even with hashtags. It can be turned off but has to be reactivated with every new search. I tested this today and also found it to be true. Unless they follow me - they can’t see me even if I use hashtags in my tweets. I will usually follow whenever I see the red X (as long as I want to see what the person is tweeting).