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> but the FBI has absolutely no right to try to get a private company to stop free speech.

Do you believe freedom of speech applies to foreign governments?

https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/160385966043116748...

>>cactus+(OP)
From that thread: Some were domestic takedowns of, say, QAnon accounts

So it was not limited to foreign government operations (or to QAnon, since it is phrased as a mere example).

>>pannSu+cd
The government suggests something and the person making the decision at Twitter agrees with it or doesn't. But the government isn't compelling Twitter to do anything.

People are ghost banned for poor language and insults. You have to imagine that Twitter is generally not very permissive based on how they treat average users. Many of the #NAFO folks are shadow banned.

This whole spectacle seems like a giant straw man in the making. The people that ran Twitter set it up based on their own belief of what is acceptable and there is nothing wrong with that.

>>pannSu+cd
Given the number of crimes and things like bomb threats linked to QAnon, it seems pretty reasonable to monitor them.

https://www.start.umd.edu/publication/qanon-offenders-united...