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Rejected submission by RandomFactor at 2018-11-04 23:05:57 from the Doubling down on dumb dept.
Digital Liberty

Twitter suspended Michael Knowles (a political commentator) three days prior to the election.
 
The reason was a rehash of one of the oldest election jokes there is, telling the other party to 'remember to vote November 7th!', this was a joke that was already made multiple times by commentators on the other side of the political divide.
 
There was the usual and predictable uproar from the usual suspects (#freeknowles)
 
Normally Twitter's playbook in this sort of situation is to ignore or blackhole discussion of it. In very rare cases with lots of visibility it is possible to even get the inappropriate suspension rescinded.
This time Twitter took a new approach, instead doubling down and suspending various prior posters of the same well worn joke, so now both sides of the aisle have been slapped down for a rehash of an antebellum joke.
 
So where does this leave us? Should we be
 
  - happy they suspended someone whose claim to fame is writing a book without any words?
  - angry they belatedly suspended multiple people on the the other side to appear unbiased?
  - disgusted that they do this to anyone at all?
  - when is GAB coming back?
 
More info: https://www.dailywire.com/news/37958/freeknowles-twitter-suspends-daily-wires-michael-emily-zanotti?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=051717-news&utm_campaign=dwtwitter [dailywire.com]


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