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Twitter is Just Randomly Deleting People's Lists -- and No One Knows Why (theregister.co.uk)
Twitter has silently, and without warning, deleted reams of lists users have spent months curating. These lists are used by journalists, activists, and loads of other people, to organize and manage twits they follow and aggregate their tweets, links, photos, and videos, reports The Register. From the article: They are, in a way, personalized RSS feeds of information from the Twitter firehose. For the past several days, though, lists have been disappearing from folks' profiles with no notification, and no explanation from Twitter thus far. Some private, or locked, lists have been made public. Among those impacted by the cockup is Australian freelance journalist and Cryptoparty founder Asher Wolf, who said the issue appears to be tied those who use the mobile Twitter App. Switching to different platforms doesn't help, however.
Why are you listing centrist sites and calling them left wing? Also, I've never seen a single right wing site that values open discussion. Say something left wing on a right wing site and you will be viciously attacked, and then banned.
The political right silences dissent, lies, and attacks. They only value free speech when it is their own. They certainly don't want women and minorities speaking their minds. And they are such thin skinned children, they want to be able to speak without any consequences. They want to force their opinions on people, but not let anyone respond.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Gab is not an open discussion forum. It actively bans left leaning accounts. It even blocks them from its Twitter feed. Like PewTube, it's building a right-wing echo chamber by censoring dissenting opinions.
This is all a matter of public record, you can verify it yourself and don't have to take my word for it.
These supposedly free-speech loving sites, set up specifically to be permissive, always seem to quickly end up banning anything they don't like on some flimsy excuse.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC