Twitter Censorship General /tcg/

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Just in the span of a few minutes, I noticed two peculiar phenomenon on Twitter.

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1 - the Deray/Patreon tweet - https://twitter.com/deray/status/880931779359780865

The first (pic related) is a @deray tweet from about 36 hours ago, which was also retweeted by Patreon. I guess he had met with Patreon at their offices that day. Leaving aside whatever they were meeting about, I found it strange that there are only 2 replies to this tweet.

Deray has 846,000 followers. Patreon, like Twitter itself, is controversial right now because it is refusing to ban a major Antifa-related group from its platform, despite It's Going Down being about as crystal clear a violator of its TOS as one could possibly imagine.

I myself replied a comment to this Deray tweet and my reply was instantly detached from Deray's tweet. I can see my reply in my own timeline, but when I go to Deray's tweet it is not there.

You could say maybe I am being shadow-banned, but the fact is there is no way that only 2 people (or anywhere near that low number) is all who have replied to deray's tweet.

In summary, I think there is large scale and automated censorship going on around Deray and/or Patreon tweets.

I believe this censorship is much larger than any media outlets have yet realized.

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2 - the NRA/Deray tweet - https://twitter.com/NRATV/status/881314298609283072

deray called the NRA out and the NRA replied with the above tweet, which was a great rebuttal. Almost every single reply that shows up is anti-NRA, which just seems off to me.

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What do you think? Have their been any good articles that really get to the bottom of how widespread Twitter-censorship of right wing voices is? Have you noticed the censorship growing in the past few days?