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Why is Twitter so aggressive with the suspensions these days, I mean there were such incidents in the past too


I agree with other answers here, but as a pushback, maybe it's not Twitter but rather the press and spotlight on it? There was an obvious "bump" after the insurrection, but I wonder if it reverted to it's mean and now we're just focused on that metric as we weren't before.


The Capitol riots probably spooked them into upping the strictness of their enforcement.


Being a good boy hoping current admin doesn't bring down the antitrust hammer.


Imagine a curve. On the x-axis is amount of censorship. On the y-axis is opposition. A slippery slope corresponds to a flat part of the curve, where a large increase in censorship causes a small increase in opposition.

Any policy in the middle of the slippery-slope is not stable. Political alliances are easiest to form advocating either side of it.

In this case there are few people who want Trump banned but think banning Venezuela's National Assembly is a step too far.




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