Check out the ultimate behind-the-scenes look at how Twitter banning Trump unfolded and how it led to more censorship for everyone

Hope you're ready for some more fun, because this here is a historic doozy.

The tweet thread from Bari Weiss is long, so I'll post a few of her tweets and then switch to text so you don't have to wait 30 seconds for them to load:

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For years, Twitter had resisted calls both internal and external to ban Trump on the grounds that blocking a world leader from the platform or removing their controversial tweets would hide important information that people should be able to see and debate.

"Our mission is to provide a forum that enables people to be informed and to engage their leaders directly," the company wrote in 2019. Twitter's aim was to "protect the public's right to hear from their leaders and to hold them to account."

But after January 6, as @mtaibbi and @shellenbergermd have documented, pressure grew, both inside and outside of Twitter, to ban Trump.

There were dissenters inside Twitter. "Maybe because I am from China," said one employee on January 7, "I deeply understand how censorship can destroy the public conversation."

Always listen to the person who has experienced communism firsthand.

But voices like that one appear to have been a distinct minority within the company. Across Slack channels, many Twitter employees were upset that Trump hadn't been banned earlier.

After January 6, Twitter employees organized to demand their employer ban Trump. "There is a lot of employee advocacy happening," said one Twitter employee.

"We have to do the right thing and ban this account," said one staffer. It's "pretty obvious he's going to try to thread the needle of incitement without violating the rules," said another.

In the early afternoon of January 8, The Washington Post published an open letter signed by over 300 Twitter employees to CEO Jack Dorsey demanding Trump's ban. "We must examine Twitter's complicity in what President-Elect Biden has rightly termed insurrection."

But the Twitter staff assigned to evaluate tweets quickly concluded that Trump had *not* violated Twitter's policies."I think we'd have a hard time saying this is incitement," wrote one staffer.

"It's pretty clear he's saying the ‘American Patriots' are the ones who voted for him and not the terrorists (we can call them that, right?) from Wednesday."

Another staffer agreed: "Don't see the incitement angle here.":

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