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

Post by baby » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 3:35 AM UTC

scrollaway wrote: post #96

ErikVandeWater wrote: post #74

Is anyone concerned by the coordinated efforts of Facebook Google, Twitter, Discord, Reddit, and Apple today? If these groups and individuals that were banned were violating the TOS before, why did they leave them in place for so long? How do these companies decide when to enforce their rules, since obviously it's not immediately? And do they make deals with one another (I'll ban someone you don't like if you ban som…

Are you implying it's "not a coincidence"? Because of course it's not. The bigger companies (twitter, facebook) minimized risk of fallout by waiting until DT's time in power was up and there was a good opportunity to do what they wanted (Jan 6th events), and the other companies are just following in their footsteps while it makes good PR. It's kinda like when BLM was hot in the news and companies decided to paint the…

Post by adnzzzzZ » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 3:36 AM UTC

geofft wrote: post #80

valvar wrote: post #31

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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).

This sort of coordination is exactly what free markets do. There's no conspiracy or coordination other than that. You may as well imply that there was some sort of coordination between every marketing department releasing an ad saying "In these uncertain times..." last March. The coup failed, the dust settled, Biden will be inaugurated, and most importantly, the Democrats took control of the Senate for the next two y…

Post by Balgair » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 3:36 AM UTC

erichocean wrote: post #64

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Here is better explained article on "The Washington Post".[0] P.S. He is also removed from Mastodon[1] too: > The page you were looking for doesn't exist here anymore. [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/08/twitter... [1] https://mastodon.social/@realDonaldTrump

When Biden moves to the White House, he should remove Trump's Presidential portrait from the wall. Completely unperson the guy, like he never existed.

Post by another_sock » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 3:37 AM UTC

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Yes and when AWS shuts them down and ISPs block them, they are free to make their own servers and ISPs. And when the financial system shuts down their banking and all of their family members' and public supporters' banking, they are free to create a new banking system as well (assuming they can pay the regulatory fees and have people lobbying for them of course)

I’m not even going to pretend you’re attempting to make an argument in good faith. One could argue tech companies have a monopoly problem but you’re just saying a private company should allow anyone to say anything on their platform and throwing a ridiculous slippery slope out in front of it.

Post by scrollaway » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 3:37 AM UTC

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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.