If it turns out that the coronavirus did escape from a lab in Wuhan, Twitter is going to owe ZeroHedge an apology for automatically flagging every link to their site. In fact they probably already do.pic.twitter.com/BIfpOl3RPP
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It's fine to ban an account for violating the ToS, but when Twitter flags any link to the site that anyone else posts on Twitter, especially using the language that they do, they're implying that the site is dangerous to users, not merely that its owners broke Twitter's rules.
Imagine if when HN banned a user, they also banned links to their site. That would either be a ridiculously draconian punishment, or would imply that there was something wrong with the site. If we assume Twitter is not ridiculously draconian, they're implying the site is bad.
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...so they owe an apology depending on the outcome of the conspiracy, why?
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The question of whether a site ban for harassment should necessitate that popup, which is presumably assigned to any site similarly banned (see point 4) is wholly irrelevant to the outcome of a specific theory
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(In the case of spammers, HN mods often do simultaneously ban a user and their site. But in that case they do mean to imply there is something wrong with the site.)
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