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Comment by Darmody | Hacker News Reader

Let's ban Parler but we'll keep Twitter, even though the platform is full of messages like this [1] and worse.

[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20210107225836/https://twitter.c...

Parler made very few attempts to actually moderate their content, at least from what I've seen. That tweet, however, has already been removed. https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1347119992462970880

A removed tweet is a pretty bad example. Seems like the content is getting moderated just fine then.

That tweet is unavailable now. Was it moderated by chance?

I don't know if it was removed by him or by twitter. But still. Get on twitter and you'll see many similar comments and accounts that encouraged violence and defended rioters this whole past year.

If you're going to be tough on people like that, don't cherry pick.

There is a moderation team that deals with these. It's on the users' to report them. You can't expect moderation to catch 100%. GP is the one who is cherry-picking.

Like this one https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1307107507131875330 ?

Threatening with violence if Trump appointed a new SCOTUS. He has almost 300k followers. The tweet is not deleted and his account is untouched.

There are several more like him, with hundreds of thousands of followers. Some deleted the tweet but their accounts are still there.

But we could go even further. The VP-elect, Kamala Harris, asked for money to bail BLM/Antifa rioters. https://twitter.com/kamalaharris/status/1267555018128965643

Alright, I'll give you that one, but "Twitter should have never banned Donald Trump's account so he could continue to incite violence and instruct people to burn the country down" just doesn't vibe with me.

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