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    Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 25 Nov 2018
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    This isn't a defense of any particular left or right-wing figure. It's an observation that the logic of these bannings is a creating a vicious cycle where people are now constantly begging Twitter for parental disciplinary interventions. It's infantilizinghttps://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1066758033903112202 …

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    When you cheer because someone you dislike gets banned from Twitter, you are cheering unnamed Bay Area apparatchiks seizing greater and greater power to dictate what you're allowed to see, using increasingly inscrutable and subjective criteria. People really want this?
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      1. Rational Thinker 69‏ @Rat693191382420 25 Nov 2018
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        “I can’t believe this platform keeps on This Bad Person, despite Thing I Deem A Violation, but got rid of This Good Person who only Thing I Deem Not A Violation.”

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      1. Perellis Maine‏ @twelvenot12 25 Nov 2018
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        It's leftists who are the infants. All the energy about @LouisFarrakhan & the like from the right is just retaliatory. Leftists have never liked free speech. They don't even like words to have meaning at all.

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      1. DC Kurtz‏ @dc_kurtz 25 Nov 2018
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        I'm generally of the opinion that this is tied to a breakdown in communication/conflict resolution skills. We don't know how to negotiate terms of coexistence with the outgroup anymore, so they have to be eliminated!

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      1. shoving a dog off the couch while it goes "hnnrpf"‏ @GarlicCorgi 25 Nov 2018
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        Good job Michael!

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      1. Alice Saonyx‏ @SasaokaAM 26 Nov 2018
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        There is an ignore button for a reason. It has always been there in every chat or medium. You don't want to engage with someone, ignore them. Simple as that. But people prefer to whine, play the victim card and force the companies to exert more control.

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      1. Pierre Diabolecto‏ @CarlOrkmansen 25 Nov 2018
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        It's more just celebrating that the lightning struck your opponent this time, rather than you

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      1. Slava Zilber‏ @v_zilber 25 Nov 2018
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        @mtaibbi predicted this.

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      1. W T‏ @thirdgenwidget 25 Nov 2018
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        This is the cycle of Social Media.

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      1. Twain's Melon  🌹‏ @ChuckRoss33 25 Nov 2018
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        W/all its many faults, twitter has served to bring independent thought out into the public domain. Albeit, a lot of garbage & disinfo trolls too. Now w/this #sanitizing effort the whole point isn’t really to protect us from the offensive A Jones, it’s to control/manage our info.

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      1. Harald‏ @equalitus 25 Nov 2018
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        But perhaps it is still too early to label them "illiberal techno fascists"? But techno-apparatchik or corporate apparatchik are terms that seem appropriate considering the controversy lately.

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      1. Primate Change‏ @richmondparkas 25 Nov 2018
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        Spot on.

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      1. Pass_the_Ripple‏ @pass1451 25 Nov 2018
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        So many people have emotionally-based thought processes. They are unable to see the bigger picture. They are also easily manipulated. PC is a prime example of this. The result is that our world becomes increasingly ridiculous.pic.twitter.com/oDayCuLmFD

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      1. Recession Truther‏ @FakeNewsStamp 25 Nov 2018
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        We need a decentralized open source version of Twitter.

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      1. David Kidd  🇨🇦‏ @dnkidd 25 Nov 2018
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        Har har

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      1. Sylvester‏ @Brimstones1234 25 Nov 2018
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        I didn't last long as a moderator on a message board because I couldn't be arsed to officiate between squabbling adults. Without wishing to take sides in a debate I don't fully understand, it does seem people are being punished for reasonable views.

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      1. EstebanAlfaroQuesada‏ @EAlfaroQ 25 Nov 2018
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        Agree 100%

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      1. The Titan Pallas‏ @AephirPrime 26 Nov 2018
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        Well said.

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      2. Lodley  🎃‏ @Lodley 25 Nov 2018
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        I find it hard to care that conservatives are being silenced after fighting against protections for so long. You gave corporations more power because government bad, now you are upset because they are using their power exactly like we said they would.pic.twitter.com/GeN50v80Cr

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        This is an image that conservatives use to criticize their libertarian faction that mindlessly trusts "the free market." The anti censorship left is still being entirely ignored by the pro censorship contingent. Left and right don't really give constructive criticism to eachother

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