How Conservative Activists Catfished Twitter
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They send took them to bars specifically to get around the law that says you can’t record someone without consent.
And apparently also made fake romantic interests to get them on dates in public places so again they could record them.
They did this to “prove” that Twitter is targeting conservatives for silencing. Rather than asking “why does being conservative require attacking minorities?”
I’ve met as many (if not more) liberals who expressed racist ideas as I have conservatives.
That's incorrect. They're being silenced because they're racist.
Conservatives should be annoyed about the coopting of the word "conservative" by racists. As you say, many conservatives are not racist (nor sexist; nor homophobic; etc.)
It’s an odd double standard.
Liberal bigots tend to censor out their public statements somewhat more -- I don't believe this is an intelligence thing in as much as a learned culture, similar to the whole "being called racist is worse than being racist".
But yeah there are all sorts of double standards -- take youtube's nazis are ok, the muslim equivalent isn't, etc etc
That said the issue of censorship is always irksome to me, even if it is on private platforms, specifically how are the rules set, how do you avoid forcing stagnation...