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Did Twitter Exec Censor #WhichHillary In Advance of Sunday Fundraiser, Key Primary? (dailykos.com)
An anonymous reader writes with the key claim of a story at The Daily Kos: In a truly egregious move yesterday, Twitter suspended the account responsible for #WhichHillary, activist @GuerrillaDems. Twitter also removed #WhichHillary from trending status, which is odd, considering the hashtag received more than 450,000 tweets in less than 24 hours. Twitter now says the suspension of @GuerillaDems was a mistake. Although this may just be a coincidence, it isn't the first time Twitter has exerted political control. Many users think it is a demonstrable conflict of interest, in light of Twitter Executive Chairman Omid Kordestani's Sunday, 2/28 fundraiser with Clinton.
The Daily Kos itself offers at least a perfunctory caution that it's unclear "whether it was intentional removal, or algorithmic coincidence."
Am supposed to find the anti-vaxxers, environmentalist wackjobs, and SJW victimhood peddlers on the left "rational"?
Don't kid yourself. No political party has a lock on reason, civility, or moderation. It's only a difference of what they're being irrational reactionaries ABOUT. Does it really matter at the end of the day if the guy holding the "THE END IS NIGH!!!" placard and screaming that we're all gonna die is a bible-thumper fanatic or a global warming alarmist? I guess with one I could pointlessly argue with him that Jeebus ain't coming back and the other I could pointlessly argue that a sea level rise of even the worst case GW scenario isn't going to even come close to "wiping out humanity." But neither one is going to listen.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.