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I really don't believe it's Twitter's fault that a small subset of users are unable to follow the rules of their service. People get reported for breaking the rules and if they do it often enough they get banned. They can't relax their enforcement because one group of people breaks the rules more often.

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The problem is not that users aren't following the rules. The problem is that enforcement is, shall we say, very selective. To give but one example, Mitch McConell's account just got banned for posting a video of a protest outside his house.

The Mitch McConnell campaign account got frozen after it was reported for posting a video that contained threats (towards the candidate), which is against the Twitter TOS.

I don't agree with this action, but it's consistent with their TOS. I don't believe I've seen other campaigns that have posted videos of people threatening the candidate so I can't make a judgement call about enforcement consistency.

I don't know if you're intentionally trying to mislead by not mentioning _which_ candidate, or if you've been misled yourself by fake news, but the violent threats in the video were agains McConnell himself, from a crowd gathered outside his house, and not by McConnell himself against anybody else.

I said towards the candidate while only mentioning one candidate. That's not obfuscating in any way.

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