Jack Shafer's piece unintentionally illustrates why his suggestion for conservatives on Twitter utterly misses the point.
Shafer suggests conservatives ought to "Drive Twitter insane by playing by their rules, expressing yourself right up to the boundary-line of the company’s standards in a way that will invite inspection and self-criticism of those standards."
That is exactly what Jesse Kelly did! We know that because in the two years since he was verified he received not a single suspension or even a warning.
Jesse Kelly engaged in iconoclasm and teased without threatening people or violating any rules. If he had, Twitter would've gone after him for it.
Instead, his lack of a clear violation clearly caused frustration - so at the end of the day, they just pulled the plug on him, permanently, without justifying it under any rule or citing any activity whatsoever.
That is because of something Shafer either doesn't understand or doesn't want to acknowledge: that for Twitter, there are no rules.
That's why Jack Dorsey has the hubris to lie to Congress about harassment against conservatives.
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Because they can always redefine the terms. They can always fudge what the standard is. They can always determine calling one person a Nazi is fine but another is not.
The truth, with Twitter rules, is that it's Calvinball all the way down. And that's why an invocation to live by them makes no sense.
