Twitter permanently bans Trump

[taiwan_girl]

A man set up a twitter account where he did nothing but retype in President Trumps tweets to see how twitter would react.

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Lazar, who since joined the Arizona Lincoln Project leadership team as a volunteer, encouraged @SuspendThePres’ over 54,000 followers to report rule-violating tweets. Over the course of the last eight months, Lazar previously told HuffPost, the account was flagged four times for posting what Twitter described as tweets “glorifying violence” and “posting misleading information about voting.” In each instance, the offending tweets were deleted by the platform and the account was temporarily locked.

However, when they came from Trump’s account, those same tweets were allowed to stay online, some with disclaimers attached, due to Twitter policies that generally leave rule-violating content from world leaders up, since such statements are deemed within the public interest.
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So, just based on this, it cannot be said that President Trump was acted on unfairly by Twitter. If anything, he was treated more fairly.

Retyping of President Trump Tweets

[Horace]

I think Twitter is more comfortable at this point with its clear moderation direction. Nothing much left standing in its way. It would have been kind of a big deal to ban POTUS before, not so much after the Capitol riots and after he is no longer POTUS elect. We all weigh our "moral stands" against the backlash we expect to get for them, though some of us are more aware of that than others.

[George K]

Germany and France oppose the ban:

Germany and France attacked Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. after U.S. President Donald Trump was shut off from the social media platforms, in an extension of Europe’s battle with big tech.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel objected to the decisions, saying on Monday that lawmakers should set the rules governing free speech and not private technology companies.

“The chancellor sees the complete closing down of the account of an elected president as problematic,” Steffen Seibert, her chief spokesman, said at a regular news conference in Berlin. Rights like the freedom of speech “can be interfered with, but by law and within the framework defined by the legislature -- not according to a corporate decision.”

The German leader’s stance is echoed by the French government. Junior Minister for European Union Affairs Clement Beaune said he was “shocked” to see a private company make such an important decision. “This should be decided by citizens, not by a CEO,” he told Bloomberg TV on Monday. “There needs to be public regulation of big online platforms.” Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire earlier said that the state should be responsible for regulations, rather than “the digital oligarchy,” and called big tech “one of the threats” to democracy.

Europe is increasingly pushing back against the growing influence of big technology companies. The EU is currently in the process of setting up regulation that could give the bloc power to split up platforms if they don’t comply with rules.

[George K]

[Doctor Phibes]

I think it's time to legislate. I've come round to Jolly's way of thinking.

[Aqua Letifer]

@george-k said in Twitter permanently bans Trump:

They should Parler Twitter.

[George K]

@aqua-letifer there you go, verbing nouns again.

[Aqua Letifer]

@george-k said in Twitter permanently bans Trump:

@aqua-letifer there you go, verbing nouns again.

Anthimeria.

[Axtremus]

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america-06.08..21-02

Trump wrote: “Congratulations to the country of Nigeria, who just banned Twitter because they banned their President. More COUNTRIES should ban Twitter and Facebook for not allowing free and open speech—all voices should be heard. In the meantime, competitors will emerge and take hold. Who are they to dictate good and evil if they themselves are evil? Perhaps I should have done it while I was President. But Zuckerberg kept calling me and coming to the White House for dinner telling me how great I was. 2024?”

There goes Trump, again, praising a speech suppressing state action taken by an autocratic regime and pining to emulate it himself.

And Trump not executing a major policy just because Zuckerberg kept telling Trump nice things about Trump? How gullible.

“2024?“ Hahahahahahaha!

[Jolly]

It may be very hard for Liars, Inc. to gin up the sane silliness as last time, especially if the economy takes a downturn or inflation continues as is.