Comment by kibwen

I think it's sad that "conservatives" seem to think that they're persecuted when in fact the "previous regime" bent over backwards to accommodate them and amplify their voices.

"In separate discussions verified by Motherboard, that employee said Twitter hasn’t taken the same aggressive approach to white supremacist content because the collateral accounts that are impacted can, in some instances, be Republican politicians. The employee argued that, on a technical level, content from Republican politicians could get swept up by algorithms aggressively removing white supremacist material. Banning politicians wouldn’t be accepted by society as a trade-off for flagging all of the white supremacist propaganda, he argued."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3xgq5/why-wont-twitter-trea...