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Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for violating its rules

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Re: Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for violating its rules

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Post by valvar »

pineapple_rice wrote: post #4

So today we had: * Reddit ban a number of pro trump subreddits (details at reddit.com/r/reclassified) * Twitter permanently bans Trump and a number of other influential conservative accounts * Discord has banned the donald win discord * Google banned Parler from the Play Store * Apple is strongly considering to do the same This will go down as a very important day in American Internet history. A very important week i…

The most ominous thing is how well-coordinated the megacorps are. I would say that it's time to put some checks on those incredible powers, but realistically, that's like complaining about Christian theological dominance during the middle ages in Europe. It's a shame that action was not taken much, much earlier (that is, a decade ago or so).

Re: Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for violating its rules

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Post by zoobab »

save_ferris wrote: post #3

Most of the discussion seems to be centered around freedom of speech and enabling dissenting voices, no matter how violent, but I think we're missing the bigger picture here. This represents a vast check on presidential power that exists purely in the hands of these incredibly wealthy and powerful social media executives. I don't necessarily disagree with Twitter's decision given the events of the last few days, but…

Jack Dorsey knows the future lies within uncensorable social networks. Guess what he has in mind with blockchain and al.

If we would have kept all the tweets as 144 chars as text only, a full copy of all tweets would have been possible through a compressed distributed blockchain.

Time to reboot social networks folks!

Re: Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for violating its rules

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Post by slivanes »

maxerickson wrote: post #22
billylindeman wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And everyone cheers it on. :(

Aren't there 75 million people that are very upset about it? (I mostly think it's hilarious that he's slowly rounded up from 74 million)

If he was OK with numbers to begin with he'd see the folly in disputing the election result, Covid cases, tax returns, ...

Re: Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for violating its rules

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Post by kumarvvr »

scrollaway wrote: post #20

Something that isn't being talked about anymore: Trump chose twitter. He chose to stay on it, to use his personal account, to use it as his primary method of communication. US presidents have the biggest, loudest loudspeakers available at their fingertips. Obama's administration had a whole protocol about how to use Twitter as one of their official comms medium and not have it be a de facto one. Biden is so far follo…

Yup. I blame Twitter too. They are too greedy. Just when their platform was receiving flak for not being profitable, trump comes on and they let him on because it was good business.

Now that he is out of power, revenue from his enabling dwindles fast and criticism increases, so the business decision is to ban him.

Re: Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for violating its rules

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Post by Laforet »

afavour wrote: post #5
save_ferris wrote: post #3

Most of the discussion seems to be centered around freedom of speech and enabling dissenting voices, no matter how violent, but I think we're missing the bigger picture here. This represents a vast check on presidential power that exists purely in the hands of these incredibly wealthy and powerful social media executives. I don't necessarily disagree with Twitter's decision given the events of the last few days, but…

I actually think that Trump, of all people, is the worst to try to make that case with. At the click of his fingers he’ll have cameras from every major news network and reporters from every newspaper in a room to listen to what he says. Inevitably whatever he does say will be on Twitter instantly. Not that it matters that much because the majority of the country aren’t even on Twitter. They read about his tweets in n…

Alex Jones got deplatformed a while ago and somehow he's still on the news every other week. I'm sure the current POTUS will just do fine.

Re: Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for violating its rules

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Post by alisonkisk »

kumarvvr wrote: post #10
pineapple_rice wrote: post #4

So today we had: * Reddit ban a number of pro trump subreddits (details at reddit.com/r/reclassified) * Twitter permanently bans Trump and a number of other influential conservative accounts * Discord has banned the donald win discord * Google banned Parler from the Play Store * Apple is strongly considering to do the same This will go down as a very important day in American Internet history. A very important week i…

Important to remember, these companies did this not from an outpouring of ethical or moral considerations, but because the next president will not tolerate them. Edit: To be clear, I support the bans and would have loved to see them earlier. I am not lamenting them.

Can you share any evidence of that?

Re: Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for violating its rules

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Post by zoobab »

Ericson2314 wrote: post #23
save_ferris wrote: post #3

Most of the discussion seems to be centered around freedom of speech and enabling dissenting voices, no matter how violent, but I think we're missing the bigger picture here. This represents a vast check on presidential power that exists purely in the hands of these incredibly wealthy and powerful social media executives. I don't necessarily disagree with Twitter's decision given the events of the last few days, but…

It's a good point, but the the solution is anti-trust and open standards, not presidential perks.

antitrust never worked.

Re: Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for violating its rules

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Post by geofft »

save_ferris wrote: post #3

Most of the discussion seems to be centered around freedom of speech and enabling dissenting voices, no matter how violent, but I think we're missing the bigger picture here. This represents a vast check on presidential power that exists purely in the hands of these incredibly wealthy and powerful social media executives. I don't necessarily disagree with Twitter's decision given the events of the last few days, but…

The ability to use Twitter (or the newspaper) is not a presidential power.

Certainly it is true that it is hard to run a campaign without a media presence. That has been true for hundreds of years. Competent candidates have entire teams, if not the vast majority of their campaign, figuring out how to effectively contract with private media entities (whose freedom is protected by the First Amendment) to get their message out. That incompetent candidates exist is not a reason to change this system.

Re: Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for violating its rules

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

umvi wrote: post #30
scrollaway wrote: post #20

Something that isn't being talked about anymore: Trump chose twitter. He chose to stay on it, to use his personal account, to use it as his primary method of communication. US presidents have the biggest, loudest loudspeakers available at their fingertips. Obama's administration had a whole protocol about how to use Twitter as one of their official comms medium and not have it be a de facto one. Biden is so far follo…

Yeah, Trump should have used whitehouse.gov to share his thoughts, and if people want to follow they can use a whitehouse.gov RSS feed or whatever.

It's illegal to delete the official public record. That's why he stuck to his personal account.
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