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Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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Post by s5300 »

2019-nCoV wrote: post #3

How is that glorifying violence?

Well, looting had already started hours before he'd posted this.

That being said - the President of the United States, just stated on one of the largest social media platforms used in the U.S., that citizens of the U.S. are now to be shot. From his words, immediately. It could even be viewed as "they should've already been shot at"

If you don't understand how this is glorifying violence, I don't think you can be made to.

Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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Post by s5300 »

2019-nCoV wrote: post #10
rootlocus wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> when the looting starts, the shooting starts. What part of this isn't?

It doesn't unequivocally say that at all. It can reasonably be interpreted as: "once people are willing to break the law and start looting, it's not long before there are also people shooting" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

Who are you to try to infer alternative ways a direct statement from the POTUS should be parsed.

Surely, you're trolling. HN isn't the place for that.

Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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Post by 2019-nCoV »

s5300 wrote: post #11
2019-nCoV wrote: post #3

How is that glorifying violence?

Well, looting had already started hours before he'd posted this. That being said - the President of the United States, just stated on one of the largest social media platforms used in the U.S., that citizens of the U.S. are now to be shot. From his words, immediately. It could even be viewed as "they should've already been shot at" If you don't understand how this is glorifying violence, I don't think you can be made…

Where does it unequivocally say that?

Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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Post by shiado »

The service that hosts the accounts of all branches of the US military, all major weapons contractors, all three letter agencies, and many foreign militaries, governments, and world leaders guilty of all manner of war crimes, and this is where they draw the line for violence. Really interesting.

Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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Post by viraptor »

adrianN wrote: post #8

I'm a bit surprised that this fight with the POTUS doesn't have a stronger influence on Twitter's stock value.

He's not moving anywhere and any Twitter controversy gets more people to tweet about that controversy... Until he forces a significant part of his followers to leave, it's not a bad situation for Twitter to be in.

Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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Post by hacker_9 »

It's interesting Twitter finally started taking a stand in Trump's last year as president, I wonder if it's because they hope he'll get ousted and they won't have to deal with the backlash from him for too long. Or it's just a marketing ploy, perhaps customer count was falling.

Re: Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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Post by s5300 »

2019-nCoV wrote: post #15
s5300 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, looting had already started hours before he'd posted this. That being said - the President of the United States, just stated on one of the largest social media platforms used in the U.S., that citizens of the U.S. are now to be shot. From his words, immediately. It could even be viewed as "they should've already been shot at" If you don't understand how this is glorifying violence, I don't think you can be made…

Where does it unequivocally say that?

Can you stop editing your HN posts after the fact? If you're going to, it's common courtesy on here to state your edit and reason for.

Please stop trying to troll.

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