Twitter’s double standards prove its policies lack seriousness

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Twitter’s guidelines are so subjective and so inconsistently enforced that I’m beginning to wonder whether conservatives wary of Big Tech’s autonomy have a point.

During a hearing before the Israeli Legislature on Wednesday, a Twitter spokeswoman defended the company’s decision not to remove tweets from Iran’s supreme leader in which he called for the “elimination” of Israel, or the “Zionist regime,” and refers to the Jewish nation as a “cancerous” place that will be “undoubtedly uprooted and destroyed.”

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