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> Twitter suspended the account of a verified media agency, Quds News Network, reportedly on suspicion that the agency was linked to terrorist groups.

Members of Congress asked that Quds News Network be removed. That one at least was not a Twitter driven action.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/04/twitter-suspends-accounts-...

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You can find individual members of congress pushing for about any action. This was still Twitter at the end of the day.

While force is different from pressure, Twitter wouldn't have done this without pressure.

Twitter is under pressure to remove just about any blue check account.

I think the fact that the censorship is government-mandated, as opposed to privately-mandated makes it worse, not better.

Publishers are supposed to reject illegal state censorship, not embrace it.

Mandated?

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