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Equally accurate headline for article content: “Twitter announces plan to make exception in automated anti-troll system to favor prominent Republicans”.

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You are claiming that, in response to a news story, the intent to remove a shadow ban applied to notorious Republicans but not to any Democrats is "favoring" Republicans. [added: And you've been upvoted]. Natch.

Yes, the intent to remove the shadowban applied by an automated troll-control system to prominent Republicans because their posts engaged in troll-like behavior (and not to Democrats because they did not engage in the behavior that the system was aimed at) behavior favors Republicans.

And, specifically, trolling Republicans.

You'd think Republican sympathizers would get that, since they are the ones who spend so much time arguing (usually against a strawman in the specific context they argue against it) that seeking equality of outcome across a status differential rather than status-blind equal treatment by merit/behavior is status-based favoritism.

To be fair you are sort of assuming their troll detection is very accurate, however these users have apparently not said enough to get banned, which makes it seem like an error on Twitter's behalf.

Do you seriously believe Twitter management is incompetent enough to:

1) not notice this

2) not do anything about it

And of course, if one assumes they are in fact smart (how much do they get paid ?), one has to conclude they know. If they know, they caused it, at least through inaction.

But I'm not 16 anymore, and I don't believe it's merely inaction.

We should probably look at the exact tweets that supposedly got them shadowbanned before jumping to conclusions as to whether or not they engaged in "troll-like behavior".

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