Progressives Are Not Going to Like This Policy Tweak at Twitter 

Matt Vespa / Townhall Tipsheet

Of course, this policy aimed to make suspending conservatives easier on the platform. For years, Twitter had a policy of suspending or censoring tweets that “deadnamed” someone. The act of deadnaming refers to a transgender person by the name they took before transitioning. Ellen Page transitioned into Elliot Page, but if you referred to this actor as “Ellen” or any gender-specific pronoun that isn’t masculine in posting about her, you could see warning labels or shadow banning occur for your posts. 

Remember, there are a lot of rules here, some of which aren’t exactly in keeping with our constitutional framework. It might be incredibly upsetting to some people, but this is America. This is the real world, a dark, cruel place, so get used to it. Offending someone should be codified in the posting guidelines for a company where free speech is its currency. Twitter forgot about that, leading to an unholy alliance between the social media giant and...Read more and see tweet here.