As much as I love not having to see Trump on Twitter now.. the future of social media is going to be fully decentralized and distributed (whether we like it or not). The Free World will need a much better immune response to this kind of radicalization than deplatforming people.
Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
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#212Why not every other politician?
They are all the same.
Let us just go a small step further and let facebook and twitter choose the next presidents.
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#213"Willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one's own; open to new ideas. Relating to or denoting a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise." - definition of what's supposed to be a liberal. Just a reminder for those who have forgotten.
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#214I 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.
You are right this is between a rock and a hard place. There was is something about the control of the spread of information that gets me. As someone else mentioned the moderation on HN is one of its strengths.
Maybe I've read too many books like 1984. It's the concentration of control of information that I don't like. If that control is in the hands of one company or the government it's all the same to me.
It scares me that one company reaches so many that banning one user can have political impacts. It also gives me hope that even POTUS isn't powerful enough to stop them.
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#215I am loving people who don't understand that they are literally supporting billionaires while claiming to be anti-corporate resistance. Definition of Liberal used to be: "Willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one's own; open to new ideas. Relating to or denoting a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise." I am still a…
2020 (and probably 2018) is when the Democrat Party became the party of billionaires and digerati, while the Republican party represented the working class, manufacturers, farmers, etc. Most rank-and-file private unions (plus police and fire) polled strongly for Trump and Republicans.
It's almost a 180 turnaround from the days when the Democrats represented the "common working man" and the Republicans were the party of rich CEO's and business owners.
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#216Is 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.
In light of everything that's happened this week, I think the first tweet could easily be interpreted as having been intended to further stoke his followers' outrage. The 2nd tweet, while somewhat factual, I think also came off as incendiary and divisive. What excuse does he have at this point for not attending the inauguration other than to make yet another spiteful statement to increase tensions and, therefore, inc…
> What excuse does he have at this point for not attending the inauguration other than to make yet another spiteful statement to increase tensions and, therefore, incite more violence?
What excuse do the Democrats have for threatening another impeachment when 10 days isn’t even enough time to follow the process to completion? Not to mention that such a thing would no doubt rile up Trump supporters.
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#217As 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.
They'll start with whoever they hate most and work their way on down. This is crazy.
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#218When /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.
Yes, the best way to build trust is to act as a megaphone for Donald Trump.
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#219Is 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…
>twitter really is the last place his voice can be heard
He's the POTUS !!!! He can be on more or less every media outlet on the entire planet in a few seconds if he so chose.
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#220as I've said for Facebook before: too little, too late.