The core argument of the TWITTER FILES is that 1/6 was fine and there is no legitimate reason to find it objectionable
It’s Bari Weiss’s turn to be Elon Musk’s sock puppet, and has she another “it’s time for some game theory!!!!!!11!!1!!11!!!11!” thread that simply assumes that nothing that happened on January 6, 2022 could reasonably factor into the decision about whether Donald Trump should continue to have access to a social media platform. But once again what the thread does inadvertently reveal is that Twitter in fact bent over backward not to ban right-wing accounts that repeatedly violated their terms of service:
The baffling question, which Weiss never bothers to explain in this thread, is why Trump had any strikes left by Jan. 8, given that in the eight weeks between Election Day and Jan. 6, he was violating Twitter's Civic Integrity Policy routinely, often several times a day. https://t.co/CdTSOrsTFC— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) December 12, 2022
Twitter's Civic Integrity Policy prohibited "misleading claims about the results or outcome of a civic process which calls for or could lead to interference with the implementation of the results of the process." "Repeated or severe violations" would lead to permanent suspension.— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) December 12, 2022
By any reasonable measure, then, by Jan. 7 Trump had, over and over again, committed "repeated or severe violations" of the Civic Integrity Policy, which Twitter rules said would lead to accounts being "permanently suspended."— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) December 12, 2022
The real question is not why Donald Trump got banned on January 8 but why it took him actually succeeding in inciting systematic violence for it to happen. In their attempt to reveal bias against right-wingers, these clowns are revealing the opposite.