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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 omarchowdhury »

save_ferris wrote: post #21
sroussey wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disagree that presidential power should bleed into private companies. He entered into a contract with Twitter, broke it, and Twitter ended things on their side.

> He entered into a contract with Twitter, broke it, and Twitter ended things on their side. I agree, and I'm not saying that Twitter acted in the wrong here. Imagine a hypothetical scenario where Dorsey threatens a president to say or not say something under penalty of deplatforming. That's a pretty significant lever to have over POTUS. That's the point I'm trying to make here.

> Imagine a hypothetical scenario where Dorsey threatens a president to say or not say something under penalty of deplatforming.

The threat would be a criminal offense.

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

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Post by kumarvvr »

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…

Does presidential power come from social media?

Presidents should not use social media, in my view. They have too much power and too much reach.

A simple TV broadcast should be good enough.

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

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Post by ajross »

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…

Seems like Wednesday was a very important day in plain old American History, so...

I just can't understand this site, I really can't. Our legislative branch was attacked at the direction of our executive branch on Wednesday. But what people are really upset about is the president's ability to tweet?

I mean... I get that it would be nice to have platforms that were politically neutral. But if that's not working out? Meh. There are plenty of places where conservatives can scream on the internet (including right here! I await my downvotes with resignation). You Just Can't Align Yourself With a Coup. Is that so terribly hard?

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

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Post by rzz3 »

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…

What other conservative accounts, just curious?

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

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Post by rzz3 »

Acrobatic_Road wrote: post #36
btmiller wrote: post #25

Frankly yes. A tolerant society does not tolerate intolerance.

A tolerant society that doesn't "tolerate intolerance" (your words) is an intolerant society. We are heading toward authoritarianism.

There’s a south park episode about this :)

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

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Post by shripadk »

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…

> This will go down as a very important day in American Internet history. A very important week in American history.

The day Censorship was made valid with hordes cheering them on. A very bad and sad precedent. This is going to backfire very, very badly. The Big Tech tested waters and realized they can behave like Supranational Powers and have support from the people. All it takes for Big Tech is for them to convince the popular masses on how to think. That is the last step to complete control. Elected Governments will be powerless against this kind of power. If they can do this to a sitting US President they can do it to anyone else and can influence elections and electorates in ways we have never imagined before.

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

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Post by zoobab »

Time for Trump to ratify the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace:

"Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather."

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

Oh shit EFF just approved censorship.

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

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Post by alisonkisk »

Acrobatic_Road wrote: post #36
btmiller wrote: post #25

Frankly yes. A tolerant society does not tolerate intolerance.

A tolerant society that doesn't "tolerate intolerance" (your words) is an intolerant society. We are heading toward authoritarianism.

See "Paradox of tolerance"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

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