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throwaway9d0291 wrote: post #172
fermienrico wrote: post #132

Side topic: Should government control looting when it comes to violent protests?

Looting is illegal. It happening when there's a violent "protest" going on doesn't make it any less illegal. One of the government's core tasks is to enforce the law, so yes, the government should control looting. And FWIW, I think "violent protest" is a misleading euphemism. This is a riot, whether you speak American [0] or English [1]. I honestly don't understand why this is a question. Why wouldn't the government…

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Post by creaghpatr »

The White House twitter account has issued a response: https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1266367168603721728?s=...

This* Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence. However, @Twitter has determined that it will allow terrorists, dictators, and foreign propagandists to abuse its platform.

*Referring to an attached picture of a Khamenei tweet about Palestine

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

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Post by Ididntdothis »

fermienrico wrote: post #132

Side topic: Should government control looting when it comes to violent protests?

Yes. Looting hurts people that have nothing to do with the protests. Protecting them should be highest priority.

I totally agree with the protests but I think looting is wrong and unproductive and hurts their own cause.

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

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Post by Balgair »

chooseaname wrote: post #274
tehwebguy wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was a message, directly to law enforcement, that he thinks it’s okay for them to shoot protestors so long as there is looting. I can’t see how anyone would see that as anything other than a crime against humanity

I don't know why you're getting down voted. Trump's words are a quote of someone who believed that "... it’s okay for them to shoot protestors so long as there is looting." Trump is very much saying he believes looter should be shot.

To be clear here: Looting is not a capital offense. It's stuff. No TV/car/stereo is worth killing a person over. You have insurance for these things (hopefully).

Though laws vary widely in the US, in CA the punishment is about a year in county jail, give or take:

https://www.shouselaw.com/california-looting-laws.html

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Post by dtf »

antishatter wrote: post #281
quietthrow wrote: post #277

Once again! Bravo Jack and the Twitter team! Thank you taking a stand against bullying.

Now if only they would crack down on the huge wave of Chinese bullshit they allow.

They added fact-checks to two of Lijian Zhao’s tweets yesterday. Not sure if that counts as a crackdown, but it’s a high level account.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52833063

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Post by whatever1 »

antishatter wrote: post #281
quietthrow wrote: post #277

Once again! Bravo Jack and the Twitter team! Thank you taking a stand against bullying.

Now if only they would crack down on the huge wave of Chinese bullshit they allow.

Did any of this bs you refer to come from the president of China directly?

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Post by Ididntdothis »

totalZero wrote: post #136
Aeolun wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's interesting how he's threatening China about HK on one hand, but on the other hand being a lot more literal and aggressive towards his own people.

I think he does not know how to handle the moves being made by China to advance its territorial claims in this chaotic moment. That would explain Donald's domestic diversions. China is pushing outward toward Hong Kong and Taiwan, in simultaneous fashion. In the former, we have the national security law. In the latter, we have new and uncamouflaged threats that China will use military force in Taiwan if it cannot cont…

Trump is just a big bully who loses courage when he gets pushback. Look at how nice he is to the North Korea guy while constantly bashing and demonizing other leaders of democratic countries.

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Post by lordCarbonFiber »

AgentME wrote: post #95
101404 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would be really funny. Imagine all the devs and supporters of Mastodon trying hard to come up with a pretext why it is okay to block him from the network via technical changes.

It's pretty established that individual Mastodon nodes are able to impose the rules they want and network with whichever Mastodon nodes they want. And many popular Mastodon nodes have stricter rules than Twitter, so it would hardly be surprising if they shunned someone who broke rules on Twitter.

110% I wouldn't federate with any node that allows that sort of posting (from Trump or anyone else). I run a a mastodon node precisely because I don't want to deal with the racism, homophobia, and transphobia so common on twitter.

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Post by ashtonkem »

TechBro8615 wrote: post #140
slg wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is using past violence as a threat of imminent violence while the other accounts you mentioned will generally reference violence indirectly or in the past tense. That is an important distinction.

He is the commander in chief. He has the capability to threaten violence. This tweet, while in bad taste IMO, was a threat to those who are planning to continue looting and burning buildings in Minneapolis. I’m not sure if you’ve seen the videos, but there are full scale riots. Rioters completely looted a Target and burned it nearly to the ground. Is “shooting” the answer to that? Probably not. And hopefully the Nati…

Are you honest to god defending the president saying that American citizens should be shot?
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