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Re: Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump

#31
post #8

I really don't when a private company decides who gets air time and who doesn't. Oh well it's the world we live in.

I really don't want the government to force me to serve people who destroy my private enterprise.

This isn't any different than a bar kicking out a patron for starting a fight - even if they happened to be the person with the largest bar tab.

Re: Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump

#34
post #23

4 years of fascism and inciting violence is all it took. This is far too little too late and Twitter is clearly complicit.

Consider yourself lucky that you have absolutely no idea what fascism looks like.

It looks like a thug on the floor of the senate with zip ties in hand, and we’ve seen it.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/zip-cuffs-capitol-riots/

Re: Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump

#36
post #8

I really don't when a private company decides who gets air time and who doesn't. Oh well it's the world we live in.

Twitter, Facebook, etc, are more powerful than “air time.” They are the most dangerous propaganda tools ever created. As we continue to discover.

Re: Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump

#38
post #19
post #3

It sounds like he tweeted new things today that they considered breaching their earlier warning? Does anyone know what those tweets were? Edit: Oh, damn, I had just seen the Twitter Safety and just assumed that this was linking to that, not to a separate blogpost. As many people have pointed out it was for these two tweets: On January 8, 2021, President Donald J. Trump tweeted: “The 75,000,000 great American Patriots…

They are purging a lot of conservative accounts.

Are they? Which ones?
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