4 years of fascism and inciting violence is all it took. This is far too little too late and Twitter is clearly complicit.
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#22It sounds like he tweeted new things today that they considered breaching their earlier warning? Does anyone know what those tweets were? Edit: Oh, damn, I had just seen the Twitter Safety and just assumed that this was linking to that, not to a separate blogpost. As many people have pointed out it was for these two tweets: On January 8, 2021, President Donald J. Trump tweeted: “The 75,000,000 great American Patriots…
Per the linked article: > The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!! > To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.
> Due to the ongoing tensions in the United States, and an uptick in the global conversation in regards to the people who violently stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, these two Tweets must be read in the context of broader events in the country and the ways in which the President’s statements can be mobilized by different audiences, including to incite violence, as well as in the context of the pattern of behavior from this account in recent weeks.
That's so Orwellian. That so obviously reads... "we wanted to ban him, so we did".
Like, if you want to ban him based on past tweets, just do it. But to claim that this tweet is inciting violence is just farcical.
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#234 years of fascism and inciting violence is all it took. This is far too little too late and Twitter is clearly complicit.
Consider yourself lucky that you have absolutely no idea what fascism looks like.
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#24this is wrong. I dislike Trump and his 4 years but this is wrong.
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#25I see that people are complaining it's too little, too late. But c'mon, there's a certain amount of appreciation due, isn't there?
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#26I really don't when a private company decides who gets air time and who doesn't. Oh well it's the world we live in.
Yes, it is the world we live in, and have pretty much always lived in. Private companies have been deciding who gets "air time" ever since we had radio or TV. And with the printing press, it's always been private companies deciding who gets airtime.
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#27It sounds like he tweeted new things today that they considered breaching their earlier warning? Does anyone know what those tweets were? Edit: Oh, damn, I had just seen the Twitter Safety and just assumed that this was linking to that, not to a separate blogpost. As many people have pointed out it was for these two tweets: On January 8, 2021, President Donald J. Trump tweeted: “The 75,000,000 great American Patriots…
Per the linked article: > The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!! > To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.
> The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!
> To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.
Imagine living in a society where saying either of these things is a banning offense. To all the censorship apologists here: you've given unelected and unaccountable people at big tech companies the ability to decide what people can say in public. Is that really the world you want to live in?
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#28Me thinks this will have huge implications for big tech. A Pandora’s box was just opened.
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#30Finally ... ding dong the witch is dead. I would like to know how much revenue Twitter and Facebook made off of this POS. Doubtful we will ever hear such things.
I think the extremely online political junkies vastly overestimate the amount of money Twitter derives from Donald Trump's tweets. Most people just use Twitter to follow their friends and celebrities and don't hang on to his every word.
They were mostly refraining from taking a harder line on Trump because they were worried about retaliation from the Republicans. Now that Trump's out office and the Democrats control all three branches that's no longer a concern for them.