January 17 the "secondary attack" on the U.S. Capitol
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Twitter permanently suspended President Trump, saying plans are "proliferating" for a "secondary attack" on the U.S. Capitol and state capitols before Inauguration Day.
https://www.facebook.com/nbcwashington/posts/10159545206343606Apparently Mr. Trump was sending secret codes to his supporters, so they suspended his account
Twitter Bans Trump, Says Plans for Jan. 17 Armed Protests Are Circulating
Twitter permanently suspended President Donald Trump's account on Friday.
The decision came after Facebook made a similar call recently, extending an initial 24-hour suspension to an indefinite one.
Trump first was banned temporarily by both platforms on Wednesday in the midst of a riot where his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol as lawmakers proceeded with the formality of counting Electoral College votes.
Twitter permanently suspended President Donald Trump's account on Friday.
The company said in a tweet it made the decision "due to the risk of further incitement of violence."
Twitter said it feared Trump's most recent tweets were being interpreted as supporting the rioters and that plans for future armed protests had already been proliferating both on and off the platform, including a proposed attack on the U.S. Capitol and state capitol buildings on Jan. 17.
The suspension amounts to a ban: Trump can no longer access his account and his tweets and profile picture have been deleted. Trump had 88.7 million followers prior to his suspension. Institutional accounts such as @POTUS and @WhiteHouse are still active.
Trump later tweeted a statement from the @POTUS account before it appeared to be deleted. Later Friday, the same statement was shared by the Trump campaign's Twitter account before that entire account was permanently.
"As we've said, using another account to try to evade a suspension is against our rules," a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement.
Twitter said it would not suspend intuitional accounts like @POTUS unless it had to in order to avoid real-world harm, but that it could limit those accounts' capabilities. Those accounts will be transferred to the next administration.
In Trump's statement, he accused Twitter employees of having "coordinated with the Democrats and the Radical Left in removing my account from their platform, to silence me — and YOU, the 75,000,000 great patriots who voted for me. Twitter may be a private company, but without the government's gift of Section 230 they would not exist for long."
Trump was referring to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the law that protects tech platforms from legal liability for their users' posts and for moderating them. The Trump campaign account also shared an image of the usually blue Twitter logo in red with a yellow hammer and sickle, symbols associated with communism.
