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>Twitter's motives to suspend an account for reporting court proceedings

It's clear Twitter suspended the account for TOS violations, and not the subject matter.

I have no dog in this fight, do not follow the case, but a quick search of Twitter yielded these not-suspended accounts that are "reporting court proceedings" as you say:

https://twitter.com/USvMaxwell https://twitter.com/Trial_Tracker https://twitter.com/CultStateDotCom https://twitter.com/MaxwellTrial

There are dozens at first glance.

There is even a trial tracker tracker...

https://twitter.com/CensorTracker

So, @hxkandbe's request that we use the suspended account's blog post about the suspension to add some context and clarity is in no way suppressing the discussion, but instead seeking to elevate and inform it.



It's always TOS violations when convenient. Plenty of accounts violate TOS and go untouched.

Not casting judgment on this specific case, but the ease with which it's possible to selectively apply TOS to bans should be concerning to free speech oriented people.

Just make a broad TOS and you can ban anybody you like.




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