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This is from November 4, 2020 right after the election. She might have been suspended originally in 2017, but wasn't this time and furthermore wasn't banned for repeated breaking of the rules. You can click on the link and still see the tweet.

Imagine if Trump had tweeted a photo of any Democrat's decapitated head, do you think the reaction would have been the same?

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Huh, but don't you see the difference, one of the president, the other just a semi-obnoxious C-class celeb...

No, the twitter rules don't make caveats for different positions in society. They are blanket rules that should apply to everyone equally but are not. That's the entire point I'm making.

> No, the twitter rules don't make caveats for different positions in society.

They do, though. (or rather, they did... I honestly have no idea what state their rules are in today, but they've changed some things) It's the only reason Trump was allowed to stay on Twitter as long as he was, and Twitter were transparent about that. [1]

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2018/world-lea...

Then Kathy Griffin should have been booted faster than Trump, not slower. So the data doesn't fit your explanation.

Responded to wrong comment? (I have no opinion on what you’re talking about)

Trump is in a position in society that Kathy Griffin is not. So Trump could tweet outside the rules and not have them removed, but Kathy Griffin should not be able to. That's what I think you meant when you said

> It's the only reason Trump was allowed to stay on Twitter as long as he was

But here we have the data point of Kathy Griffin's tweet staying up while Trump's tweets are taken down and blocked. So I'm saying that datapoint, that tweet by Kathy Griffin staying up, does not fit your "Twitter lets leaders get away with more" explanation. That tweet from Kathy Griffin should have been removed faster than Trump's tweets, but it's still there.

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