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As 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.
Will politicians continue using Twitter et al after this? Seems a bit risky to reach out to their followers using a third-party. Why don’t they have their own website?
Most politicians don't fan the flames of hatred, misinformation and sedition from their Twitter account so they'll be fine.
This 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…
The recent tweets are nothing compared with those before the Capitol invasion, and during it. Twitter should present them all in a timeline, for clarity and for history.
If no tv network will carry his remarks live, and no social network will give him a posting account, then he has no way of communicating with the American people and it seems pretty difficult to make the case that he is able to carry out his duties. So I guess what I'm saying is: invoke the 25th amendment because he got kicked of Twitter.
Please, God, let it be so. Every time I talk to my parents I have to hear about and respond to the latest outrage as reported by CNN and MSNBC. "Mom, they're just winding you up." "No Dad, that doesn't actually seem so important." Good grief.
They let him concede, waited a day, and then nuked him. It's too little too late, but I'll take it.
Is 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 75,000,000 great American
Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA
FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT
AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE
long into the future. They will
not be disrespected or treated
unfairly in any way, shape or
form!!!”
“To all of those who have asked,
I will not be going to the
Inauguration on January 20th.”
When a comment describing Trump as fascist (he is one) is flagged due to downvotes it's a bit odd.
They let him concede, waited a day, and then nuked him. It's too little too late, but I'll take it.