http://hotair.com/archives/2018/08/06/twitter-owens-hey-bad-suspension-jeong-commentary/
Twitter didn't have much to say about the original "satirical" tweets from Sarah Jeong, but they acted quickly when a prominent conservative launched her own satire. Candace Owens, a prominent activist with conservative grassroots group Turning Point USA, got a prompt 12-hour suspension from Twitter after a string of tweets demeaning black and Jewish people. However, critics immediately charged the social-media platform's executives with a double standard, pointing out that Owens had only replaced "white" with "black" and "Jewish" from Jeong's years-long Twitter rants:
On Saturday, Owens called attention to racially charged tweets Jeong sent in years past for which she has come under fire in recent days. Owens, who is black, tweeted out the text of one of those tweets, swapping out the word "white" for "black."
"Black people are only fit to live underground like groveling goblins. They have stopped breeding and will all go extinct soon. I enjoy being cruel to old black women," she tweeted.
"No matter which way you slice it, [Jeong] is a racist. It is ABHORRENT that the failing [New York Times] has decided to stand by her," Owens added in a follow-up tweet. "Hoping for the extermination of ANY race, is indefensible behavior."
Owens also appeared to do a similar swap, replacing "white" with "Jewish." However, that tweet appears to have been deleted, though users shared screenshots of the tweet.
Twitter admitted their error yesterday:
Hello,
We have restored your account, and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Twitter takes reports of violations of the Twitter Rules very seriously. After reviewing your account , it looks like we made an error.
Thanks,
Twitter Support
THAT is NO apology. Twitter has egg on its face because their error was that THEY PROVED OWENS' POINT BEYOND A SHADOW OF ANY DOUBT - BIG TIME! Twitter is run by biased, bigoted hypocrites.
It's almost impossible to believe that Twitter didn't know what Owens was doing with those tweets. They had already come under fire for biased enforcement of their rules even before the Sarah Jeong tweets came to light. Owens went out of her way to make her satire obvious, practically a dare to Twitter to enforce those rules on her while giving Jeong a pass. They fell into the trap, and only acknowledged it when Owens' prominence forced them to do so. ...
It once again demonstrates the rabbit hole into which Twitter is rapidly descending. Their policies have become more and more subjective and their interventions more and more arbitrary, driven by the mobs rather than any rational application of "conversational health." Sarah Jeong and Candace Owens aren't the biggest problem on social media - it's the pitchfork-and-torch brigades that Twitter is enabling and empowering. Twitter is enabling the {libtard} Robespierres when they should be providing their customers with the tools to render them powerless. And it will end up being their ruin.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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