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🗓️ 12 February 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | feminist writer Megan Murphy was banned from Twitter not that long ago for saying something to the |
| 0:04.9 | effect of men aren't women though and then after a suspension due to that tweet she tweeted something |
| 0:10.1 | similar and was banned. We're now learning that she is filing a lawsuit against Twitter saying |
| 0:14.8 | this was an unfair banning. Now Twitter likes to claim that they don't use politics, they don't |
| 0:20.8 | think about politics when they enforce their policies but that is an outright falsehood. Their |
| 0:25.9 | policies are actually based on a political ideology and when you realize that even Twitter |
| 0:31.2 | acknowledges foreign influence is manipulating people on Twitter. Their banning people over |
| 0:37.4 | political ideas shows that they too are exerting undue influence over people in the political space. |
| 0:42.9 | Today I don't take a look at some of the controversies surrounding Twitter starting with this |
| 0:46.6 | lawsuit and what it means and I'm going to look at some of the proof that Twitter knows there's |
| 0:50.9 | political influence on their platform and how they are unfairly targeting certain individuals |
| 0:55.2 | based on their politics. But before we get started make sure you're following me on mines at |
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| 1:12.8 | writer sues Twitter over ban for criticizing transgender people. Canadian blogger tweeted men aren't |
| 1:18.8 | women violating harassment rules in the platform. A Canadian writer filed a lawsuit against Twitter |
| 1:24.5 | saying the social media platform unfairly banned her because her criticism of transgender rights |
| 1:28.8 | doesn't line up with the company's politics. Megan Murphy, a gender politics blogger alleges that |
| 1:33.6 | Twitter violated unfair competition law when it changed its hateful conduct policy late last |
| 1:38.4 | year. Under Twitter's new policy users can be banned for calling a transgender individual by their |
| 1:43.2 | pre-transition names or referring to them with the wrong pronouns. The suit alleges that the change |
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