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It's definitely hard to figure out the logic where it's OK to ban someone for posting plane data because it might be misused for dangerous while it's bad evil censorship to ban the President while he's actively trying to overturn the results of a lawful election.


It's simple, Does it hurt Elon's feelings? If so, ban them.


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You know that’s not the same.


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You know that’s not it.


It's 90% of "it".


Contesting the results of an election is entirely different to publishing location data with the intent to cause physical harm.

Disputing election results is also part of the democratic process, even if you disagree with it, and should be encouraged. There is nothing in the public interesting concerned with stalking people.


> Disputing election results is also part of the democratic process, even if you disagree with it, and should be encouraged.

no, a democratic election with proper monitoring will not have a dispute on the election result - after all, you would be monitoring the counting process.

What happened in jan is not a dispute of the election, it's a refusal to accept the results of the election. Aka, an attempted coup.


Disputing elections in good faith and lawfully is part of the democratic process.

Incitement of insurrection after lawful means have been exhausted is by definition not part of the democratic process.


Can you prove there were ever intent to cause physical harm?


I read much more intent to cause harm in Trump's Jan 6 tweets than I did in any of Jack Sweeney's

but intent is really difficult to prove which makes it a terrible metric for objective moderation


> ...*with the intent to cause physical harm*.

lets not get this carried away.




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