Commentary: Banning hate never works out as we expect
by Matt Welch, Los Angeles Times
Jun 17, 2019
3 minutes
We did it, America. After letting our social media panic rise for years, we finally helped convince Twitter to ban God.
OK, it wasn't God, per se, but rather TheTweetOfGod, a satirical account run by a former "Daily Show" writer who posts quips such as, "What happens after you die is pretty funny actually."
Twitter, which like all social media platforms is under increasing consumer and political pressure to police bigotry and extremism, ruled on Tuesday that the ersatz Yahweh had engaged in
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