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Jack Dorsey says he agrees with reversing Trump's Twitter ban

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Re: Jack Dorsey says he agrees with reversing Trump's Twitter ban

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Trump should have been banned before even running for office? Oh is that how it works now in Silicon Valley? Can we just ban all right wing politicians from twitter so they don't get elected? Sounds like democracy!

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Innocent until proven guilty. AFAIK Trump has not been convicted of any "illegal activity" in that regard.

That is a technicality. You cannot convict the President of anything (he controls enforcement of the laws, has pardon power, etc.). The senate would need to impeach him, remove him from office (which would never happen due to Republican opposition), then convict him as a private citizen (which would never happen due to political norms).

Re: Jack Dorsey says he agrees with reversing Trump's Twitter ban

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I think that mob incitement is an excuse used for selective enforcement of the rules. If you're on the left, you're clearly operating under different rules: https://twitter.com/LoriLightfoot/status/1523844510735908864

Yeah, that's equivalent to "stand back, and stand by" /s

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Re: Jack Dorsey says he agrees with reversing Trump's Twitter ban

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They problem is that Trump also said he wanted the protestors to be peaceful. We don't know what he intended. For you to pretend you do is nonsense. Now, where Trump is guilt is his actions after the events started. He should have within minutes been calling for it to stop and doing all he could to get police or national guard there to help. This is where I wish the impeachment investigation would have gone, sadly th…

The missing call logs say everything here don't they? To be on the phone with the police or national guard isn't going to happen on Signal.

Re: Jack Dorsey says he agrees with reversing Trump's Twitter ban

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Before this turns into a culture-war-fest consider this: if Twitter is to be a global platform, it probably should NOT take political sides and if it is to censor anyone permanently, it should mostly adhere to local courts and similar entities. It's not about Trump or United States. It's about everyone else.

World is a really messy place. It's not very easy generally to decided if in a political conflict one or other party has moral high ground. For instance we have several Nobel peace price winners now participating in plausible genocide (Aung Sang Suu Kyi and Abiy Ahmed). Who has the moral high ground? I have no frigging idea, but I don't think an unelected corporation should decide either.

If Twitter takes the side Trump is a crook and should be perma-banned, this creates a precedent for silencing the voices of opposition voices around the globe.

Edit: I mean in the context if Twitter is designed to be a fair medium for anyone to express themselves. Of course it does not have to be like that and can block anyone without infringing anyones rights as such.

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Your tone is not much different from his from my perspective (citizen of another country and I don't care about US elections).

I don't think you have read much of the former president's writings or heard any of his speeches if you think this tone is "not much different".

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Wasn't Biden president when Trump was banned from Twitter?

Not yet. In any case, Presidents retain their title as President for life.
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