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dingaling on Aug 15, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter Suspends Alex Jones for Seven Days Over Tw...

So songs weren't banned, they were deemed inappropriate to play.

Another example of Snopes proudly declaring FALSE when PARTIALLY TRUE would be more appropriate.

Ah the modern Web, where even the 'fact-checkers' play the spin game.

Max_Mustermann on Aug 15, 2018 [–]

"Radio personnel were still free to make their own programming decisions, and the list was merely intended as helpful advisory information."

How does that make a "ban" partially true?

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