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But you can insult conservatives by calling them Nazis and that’s ok on Twitter. You can call Clarence Thomas an “Uncle Tom” or a “House N—“ and that’s ok. But using a different pronoun as a political statement — that’s where the line is?


Twitter's terms of service differentiate between calling someone a mean name once and establishing a pattern of harassment. The line is somewhere in there, apparently. Insulting people is not against the terms of service. Harassment is. It's not clear it's even possible to harass Clarence Thomas on Twitter as he doesn't seem to use the platform.

That's why I originally posted; it's not like Meghan Murphy posted one unkind thing about one person and suddenly found herself banned. It was a protracted pattern of behavior (at odds with her own stated beliefs, no less). So, the original statement that she was banned for "stating her opinion" is disingenuous at best and outright false at worst.




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