Easy to apply these policies only now that he lost the election.
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#72This ban seems to heavily take advantage of the current moment, as it's obvious that he has tweeted worse things in the past. It's strange that they picked such a poor way to justify the ban when they could have made a significantly stronger case, and in doing so could have convinced millions more people that they are trying their best to apply policies evenly. For example, I have a hard time imagining why they chose…
Sure. He's violated twitter's rules numerous times. This is as good of a time as any to actually enforce their rules.
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#73I 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.
Yes, it is the world we live in, and have pretty much always lived in. Private companies have been deciding who gets "air time" ever since we had radio or TV. And with the printing press, it's always been private companies deciding who gets airtime.
The appeal of social media is that they no longer had such a heavy hand about it. It's virtually the entire point.
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#74As I said in the Apple-Parler thread:
Massive Big Tech conglomerates must be busted through antitrust enforcement and Section 230 must be updated to ban predatory algorithms which have inflamed 7 years of sectarian chaos and violence.
It's not a free speech issue: It's about Too Big To Fail. They have too much power, beyond that of even the world's largest governments. This cannot stand.
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#75Me thinks this will have huge implications for big tech. A Pandora’s box was just opened.
People are banned all the time. The only reason he wasn’t banned earlier, and there has been plenty of opportunity to do so, is that he stood in a position of privilege, having been elected president.
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#76Me thinks this will have huge implications for big tech. A Pandora’s box was just opened.
If TOS will begin to also apply to famous people then I welcome its opening.
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#77Is it just my perception, or is their actual justification using the 2 quoted tweets kinda weak? Interpreting his boycott of an event as a call to violence seems like a huge stretch. It seems like they wanted to shoehorn a justification using his 2 latest tweets when the actual reason goes back further.
No, that's not just you. They probably wanted to align with other social media platforms, who had already permanently suspended him yesterday.
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#79Four years too late. Maybe even more.
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#80Whatever you think about Trump, he has First Amendment rights under the U.S. constitution. If violating the law, he should be punished, but it is not up to private companies to revoke constitutional rights.
Trump still has the right to speak publicly. No one should wish that he be silenced by private companies.
Trump should just tell his supporters to go to his own web site and communicate with them that way. There's no reason he has to use Twitter. He can use email. It might even be more effective for him.