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Yes someone published a story in the Wall Street Journal, but this thread is talking about Twitter. Twitter is not exonerated because some other outlet did something differently.

The point here is that they were specifically responding to government requests to censor information. That is truly government overreach, but in the opposite direction to what you claim.

>Being punished for exerting control over what is publish on your private web site seems to me like massive government overreach to me. I don't think anyone would administer web forums if the government started telling them how they could and could not moderate posting.

Just wait until you realize that corporations at a certain scale become a form of government themselves!

> I would hope that journalists conduct their research through better means than solely reading Tweets.

That's not a good reason to suppress scientists tweets.

Also, many of the best journalists of the past decades have been loudly warning of being shadowbanned, supressed, deranked etc.

> I don't think anyone would administer web forums if the government started telling them how they could and could not moderate posting.

A large part of these Twitter reveals show just how much government connections pushed extreme "moderation" (read: censorship) of specific issues.

Not really. Biden just asked twitter take down his sons dick pics.