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So, Twitter can’t do that without providing what a bunch of people will see as confirming evidence. Indeed, jumping straight to a permanent suspension only proves that the company would be treating some people differently, and would be treated by people like Greene as “proof” of “anti-conservative bias” (again, this would be bad faith, but it would allow the story to have some level of confirmation). But, of course, that system kind of breaks down when you have not just bad faith actors who are deliberately testing the boundaries of what they can get away with, but who actually benefit from the suspension and the press attention that comes with it.Īt this point, some will say “well, that’s a perfect reason to just suspend such people permanently.” But, alas, that comes with its own challenges. Getting suspended for a few hours or a week generally sucks for users who actually like to use the site but it’s a sort of “cool off” period combined with a gentle nudge to be a better participant on the internet. In that world, an escalating penalty system makes sense. Twitter has its escalation policies in place, and they’re designed (reasonably!) to deal with good faith users, who might not realize they’re violating the rules or spreading dangerous disinformation. However, once again, it really seems to highlight the impossible nature of content moderation at scale, especially when some of the parties are clearly acting in bad faith.
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So, in the end, you have both ends of the political spectrum mad about this setup, and trying to spin it to their own advantage. She’s already put out a statement and the usual “conservative” media orgs are already talking about how “Twitter can’t handle the truth” or some such nonsense.Īnd then, of course, you have people who are reasonably ticked off at Twitter “only” temporarily suspending Greene for spreading nonsense info, rather than permanently banning her. And, no doubt the same is true with this suspension as well. I, unfortunately, can’t find the tweet now, but back in July when she was similarly suspended for just 12 hours, I saw someone jokingly note that temporarily suspending someone like Greene was the equivalent of Twitter throwing her a fundraiser, since she would immediately turn around, play the victim, and get her gullible, duped followers to throw more money at her.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has, not for the first time, been temporarily suspended from Twitter for passing along conspiracy theory nonsense regarding vaccines. You may have heard that conspiracy theorist and nonsense-spouting Rep. Wed, Aug 11th 2021 03:42pm - Mike Masnick