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Dec 12 3 tweets 1 min read
Once again the underlying story is that an account was excused from normal terms of service and allowed to get away with breaking rules for years, so when it finally got banned, it was by an irregular process
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These dumbasses have (supposed) access to a vault of information that could illuminate the depths of the known problem "Twitter moderation was an ad hoc mess," but their brief was to publish "Twitter was deliberately unfair to right-wingers," for which they don't have the goods

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Dec 10
"Even Google searches," imagine, like before deciding if something was or wasn't bullshit they went and searched the World Wide Web for information about it, how dare they
"After a pause" of...26 seconds during which he typed 18 words, a rate of a little over 40 words per minute
This shtick is so weirdly snotty and tendentious! Look, he "ghosts" federal agencies to deal with [two other fairly important sounding pieces of business]!
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Dec 9
How did they know which DMs to request screenshots of
Sorry, deleted this b/c the denial here was *user DMs*; presumably it's the internal Slack DMs the reporters are reading, unless Twitter does internal business on Twitter DM, which—
But the questions still apply to the workflow described here: how were internal DMs screened from the reporters to protect personally identifying information, while still giving reporters access to the DMs?
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Dec 8
Making up a guy other people aren't allowed to be mad at
Quite a turn of phrase here
"Nothing." The answer, as always, by definition, is "nothing."
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Dec 7
Wait, wow, you thought—no, no, I said “it’s RIPoff from here”!
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Dec 5
You know what could fetch pitching is the cheapass crook owners SPENDING MONEY ON PITCHERS
Shut the fuck up about "ceiling," you're three years overdue to start paying market rates for a FLOOR Image
It was literally NOT AT ALL about getting better!!!!! "current roster construction be damned" means THEY WERE MAKING THE TEAM WORSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Image
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Douthat once again walks right up to the moral imperative for material justice and veers away, the pleas of even the right-wing popes unable to penetrate the ideology stuffed into his ears ImageImage
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