And the reverse!

For what's worth, I've actually changed my mind about this. I was originally fine with the government encouraging Twitter to take down pandemic related stuff, but after seeing what Trump has done... well, in hindsight, I think the Biden administration should have stayed out of Twitter moderation, just as the Trump administration should stay out of Facebook moderation.

I still think there is a difference in severity between what Biden did and what Trump is doing, but that's beside the point. The current administration has really demonstrated for me why free speech is so important. We should not compromise on that principle, even when it seems logical in the short term.

No one (at least no one of note) ever claimed that government coercion of social media was a "good thing". The controversy around the "Twitter Files" was (and remains) whether any such coercion[1] actually happened. Do remember the smoking gun request for a takedown turned out to have been penis photos.

But for the record, since consistent propriety is the subject of the subthread: as a left-leaning liberal, I hereby declare that I think coercing Twitter to remove content for political reasons is equally as bad as doing the same to Facebook.

[1] Not least because the entity doing the coercing was not the government, which was run by Biden's opponent.

> police workers

ICE are not police. That's part of the problem with your post. Revealing the public location of where masked federal agents are in unmarked cars kidnapping random citizens and non-citzens alike is not doxing nor harassment nor obstruction.

...so you'd hope the people upset about what happened at Twitter would be even more upset when the speech being suppressed has higher political salience.

Holy historical revisionism Batman!

One was banning deadly misinformation (e.g. injecting bleach) about a deadly global pandemic, as well as stopping the “doxing, threatening, harassment and obstruction of” public health workers.

This is preventing citizens from monitoring taxpayer-funded police activity - not all that dissimilar from listening to a police scanner.

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We have always enforced laws selectively. Cops can let you off with a warning or ignore you going five miles an hour over the limit. Prosecutors decline to prosecute. Marijuana dispensaries are everywhere.

Which ones we pick to be super hardline about says much about us.

Who says they are enforcing laws? A lot of their activity looks to be illegal.

Wow, that's a bit of a straw-man argument. ICE agents should be able to enforce the law, within reason, and within their authority.

But they aren't enforcing the law, they are often taking highly illegal actions. If you've been only listening to Fox News, you wouldn't know it otherwise. But it's well documented what they've been up to. And it has caused widespread misery and none of these agents are accountable.

I mean, you clearly don't want law enforcement to be accountable for their actions. That's quite the take you've got there.