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Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
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#182Is 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.
The thing is, Twitter has data on how people responded to those two Tweets. If Trump gets prosecuted, I expect we will see responses to Trumps tweets as evidence in court. My guess is they can make a statistical causal claim. Example, what if some of those who broke into the capital earlier replied to one of Trump's tweets in such a way as to suggest they were incited by Trump?
Re: Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
#183Is 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.
> Is it just my perception, or is their actual justification using the 2 quoted tweets kinda weak? Interpreting his boycott of an even as call to violence seems like a huge stretch.
Of course it is. They’ve been itching to ban him since day one but held off due to the negative PR of saying “the president of the US isn’t allowed on our platform” and the obvious fuel to the “bias in tech” fire. I’m not even mad, we all knew this day would come.
What bothers me is there have been plenty of tweets all summer long by Democrats and others cheering on the protests which, to put it lightly, caused a bit of violence and certainly didn’t help in the spread of Covid.
And there is of course the recent tweet where AOC said the point of protests is to make people uncomfortable. There is definitely more than one way someone could interpret the meaning of “uncomfortable”, for sure. I just wish Twitter and other big tech companies would apply the same principles across the board instead of selectively playing the “well if you consider it with THIS context...” game.
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#18474 million voters. This is not going to play out well. There's really no coming back from this moment, the technocratic elite have changed American democracy forever. Edit: I mean this in the way Snowden tweeted yesterday, it will be interesting how this plays out for better or worse, but it is a monumental policy shift that will be a date marked in history books.
American democracy was changed long before this. (see: southern strategy, freeing of slaves, allowing women the vote...)
Re: Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
#185Is 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.
I think the first tweet is a good argument. I personally think second tweet is not only a stretch it's the exact kind of tweet POTUS should have been using Twitter. He just says, in a normal manner, "I won't attend X" without SHOUTING or using weird adjectives like "nasty woman" or whatever. I think it's important to understand that Twitter needs to be very conservative here. All social media banned Trump, and twitte…
Well, if Trump tweets "I'm gonna nuke Iran" tomorrow they don't want to be the place Trump announces this.
That is a far better argument for permanently suspending his account than what they cobbled together.
Re: Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
#186Is 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.
They've wanted to ban him since day one. They just have the political backing to do it now.
They start deleting all kinds of pro trump accounts.
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#187When /r/the_donald got booted off reddit they got together and created https://thedonald.win/ . All this action from twitter will do is create an opportunity for a different or new site to host trump's comments. And for many people, and maybe someday the majority of people, that new site may be more trustworthy than twitter.
Do you think they are not aware of that ? I think that they know and they think it's insignificant.
Re: Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
#188Is 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.
I agreed when I first read the tweets but the explanation about how the tweets have been interpreted as possibly causing more violence it’s now possible anything DJT says on Twitter will be taken as being promoting violence. This is unfortunate but it was Trump’s goal in many of the statements he’s made in the past.
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#189I understand how Twitter says that these are relevant to the recent events, but it feels like they were just sitting around waiting for him to tweet something they could latch onto to use as a reason to remove him. Because these tweets seem innocent compared to so many of his others. Really not sure how I feel about this though... weighing between the benefits of allowing open speech on “town square” Internet forums…
There’s probably some political infighting going on at twitter’s decision making committee. Maybe some people threatened to resign or something, or maybe @jack just told them to ban Trump now.
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#190Question for everyone who's saying "private platform can do whatever." You are against the FDA, EPA, Net Neutrality etc? And how about the baker who refused to bake cake for the gay couple for religious reasons.