Twitter Confirms It Halted 'Hang Mike Pence' as a Trending Topic
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#2Now this is just going too far.
When will the government step in and compel Twitter to respect the free speech of these patriotic Americans? Conservative voices are being silenced!
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#3Good. Calls for violence are unacceptable.
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#4Can confirm - i've retweeted some of the recent "hang mike pence" related tweets.
The great thing, that this title doesn't clarify, is that a lot of the trending tweets (at least of recent, and what i RT) are not promoting the hanging of pence, but speaking out against it and the people who say it.
I've never liked mike pence, we have opposing perspectives - but man, i have never even thought about hanging him. But these rioters, who in theory are part of his party, were there and ready to hang him because he didn't do what they wanted, just did his job. Something I have to give him credit for.
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#5It's kind of sad to see how these threads quickly turn into a a messy sequence of poorly reasoned arguments or how some people are trying to justify really extreme positions.
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#6This would be whack-a-mole otherwise, but when I saw this trending the vast majority of the tweets were sharing videos of people chanting that slogan in the Capitol amidst the storm. By suppressing the sharing of that information people are actually less likely to be aware that's what they were chanting (I know I would be less aware because that's where I learned about it).
Now I guess there's the potential they weren't actually shouting that and it was dubbed, but it seemed credible based on many of the sources discussing it on twitter, some of whom were 1 degree separated from the source of the video.
Aside: there are so many landmines in me writing this that I don't know how to qualify my comments well enough to not be accused of something. Guess no one has to say to me "may you live in interesting times."
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#7Good. Calls for violence are unacceptable.
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#8These people are a lost cause. There was a vicious attack on an unassuming black woman in LA yesterday where more than 20 trump supporters held her down and punched and maced her. These people are terrorists and should be dealt with accordingly.
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#9Can confirm - i've retweeted some of the recent "hang mike pence" related tweets. The great thing, that this title doesn't clarify, is that a lot of the trending tweets (at least of recent, and what i RT) are not promoting the hanging of pence, but speaking out against it and the people who say it. I've never liked mike pence, we have opposing perspectives - but man, i have never even thought about hanging him. But t…
I've (anecdotally) observed this is the case with some trending topics. You'll go check out something like #BabyKillingIsGood (not real, I made this hash tag up obviously), thinking, wow that's crazy, the hashtag invokes an idea I find quite objectionable as would any reasonable person. And 99.9% of the tweets on that hash tag are, "Um, actually, killing babies is not good. #BabyKillingIsGood #DumbIdea #No #Disagree #Etc."
Re: Twitter Confirms It Halted 'Hang Mike Pence' as a Trending Topic
#10Can confirm - i've retweeted some of the recent "hang mike pence" related tweets. The great thing, that this title doesn't clarify, is that a lot of the trending tweets (at least of recent, and what i RT) are not promoting the hanging of pence, but speaking out against it and the people who say it. I've never liked mike pence, we have opposing perspectives - but man, i have never even thought about hanging him. But t…
I've (anecdotally) observed this is the case with some trending topics. You'll go check out something like #BabyKillingIsGood (not real, I made this hash tag up obviously), thinking, wow that's crazy, the hashtag invokes an idea I find quite objectionable as would any reasonable person. And 99.9% of the tweets on that hash tag are, "Um, actually, killing babies is not good. #BabyKillingIsGood #DumbIdea #No #Disagree…
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