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> Pre-Elon Twitter was arguably the last major social media site that actually supported some subset of the "open web" people like to reminisce about here.

Unless you disagreed with its politics. In which case you were suspended, or shadowbanned. This has been well covered by Michael Shellenberger and others.

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> Unless you disagreed with its politics. In which case you were suspended, or shadowbanned.

I would appreciate an example about what kinds of political posts Twitter banned. Pre-Elon Twitter did suspend Republicans more than Democrats, but that was because Republicans tended to post more misinformation [1].

Tangentially speaking, Twitter also gave rule-breaking posts regarding the January 6th, 2021 insurrection a bit of leeway [2].

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/18/fascinating-new-study-su...

[2] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/29/internal-twitter-video-r...

Somewhat ironically for a post talking about misinformation, the first link that you use to support your claim links to a study that says "this study has not yet been published in a peer reviewed journal".

You'd think that piles of concrete evidence would end the denialism, but it seems that people aligned with those politics don't consider stories like the Twitter Files to be real oddly enough. I'm not sure if it's because mainstream media outlets didn't cover it, but there's a correlation.

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