Quote (fender @ 19 Dec 2022 00:11)
so the ford EMPLOYEE is the analogy for twitter USERS in your "intellectually honest" example? yeah, you brownshirts have never been the brightest ones, lol... stick to dehumanising people you don't want to exist, don't try thinking yourself, it's bound to fail...
On a social media platform like twitter, high-profile, blue-checkmark users are part of the public image and the promotion of the platform. But fine, change my analogy to a random dude who doesn't work for Ford, appears on the Ford stand decked in BMW gear shouting "BMW is better than Ford" at all visitors and then gets banned from the stand. Or to a Ford-specific car dealer who puts up a BMW ad board above his yard.
Fact of the matter is still that there's a huge difference between a company not allowing its resources to promote a direct competitor, and using physical force to stop its users from moving to another platform.