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Twitter's Jesse Kelly problem

Given the endless polemical fights right-wing talk-show host Jesse Kelly gleefully picks online, one can imagine any number of reasons liberals on Twitter may have found to be offended by him. Among his recent tweets, he defended Confederate soldiers, agreed that climate change is a plot by "cultural Marxists" and likened "Drag Queen Storytime" at a Boulder, Colo., library to a baby-sitting session with Caligula.

But when Twitter notified Kelly on Sunday that he had been "permanently banned," it did not reveal

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