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Re: Meta Ending Suspension of Trump’s Accounts

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Post by nh23423fefe »

refurb wrote: post #45
peterashford wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obviously, your intuition differs, but my view (as a New Zealander) is that Trump absolutely broke the terms of use of the platforms he was on and deserved being banned. Free speech means that you can't be imprisoned for your political views, not that everyone owes you a platform.

But what specific terms did he break? https://www.oversightboard.com/news/226612455899839-oversigh... They said his comment "We have to have peace. So go home. We love you. You're very special." and "from great patriots who have been badly, unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love in peace. Remember this day forever!" As "praising or supporting people committing violence". He literally said "we have to have pe…

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Re: Meta Ending Suspension of Trump’s Accounts

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

Jordrok wrote: post #25
cma wrote: post #18

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Didn't he break rules normal people would be banned for?

Absolutely. Any other normal person would have had their account permanently banned with no recourse.

He should have been banned for his Mexicans speech in 2016, according to Facebooks own rules.

Re: Meta Ending Suspension of Trump’s Accounts

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Post by knewter »

krapp wrote: post #12
thinking4real wrote: post #7

“The public should be able to hear what politicians are saying so they can make informed choices.” Oh that’s hilarious. After tech companies stifling a sitting president, now they are going to straight faced claim this like it means a damn thing. This is insulting to users’ intelligence.

I love how everyone just uses the term "sitting president" verbatim now when making this argument, as if the prospect of a president losing their social media accounts is supposed to fill us with dread, sitting or no. It's almost become like a verbal tic. Everything that president said and did was covered by the press around the world, an army of spokespeople and a million online sycophants. He isn't (and certainly w…

> Everything that president said and did was covered by the press around the world, an army of spokespeople and a million online sycophants.

Except virtually everyone I spoke to was unaware of what his final posts on social media on jan6 were, they were not covered, and they were lied about for years with no way for the public to see that in fact he called for people to go home peacefully on jan6.

You can say things like this, but they carry more weight when they're true.

Re: Meta Ending Suspension of Trump’s Accounts

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Post by dang »

fullmoon wrote: post #49
CamperBob2 wrote: post #5

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When writing those witty comparisons, do you ever stop and think about the millions of human beings that were murdered by actual fascism, or do you pretend that you actually give a damn and are fighting an internet fight against fascism?

Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Meta Ending Suspension of Trump’s Accounts

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Post by papito »

thinking4real wrote: post #7

“The public should be able to hear what politicians are saying so they can make informed choices.” Oh that’s hilarious. After tech companies stifling a sitting president, now they are going to straight faced claim this like it means a damn thing. This is insulting to users’ intelligence.

The HackerNews crowd really needs to figure out how to deal with the cognitive dissonance of "the business can do no wrong while chasing the profits" and "but ma' freedoms".

Re: Meta Ending Suspension of Trump’s Accounts

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Post by papito »

knewter wrote: post #63
krapp wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love how everyone just uses the term "sitting president" verbatim now when making this argument, as if the prospect of a president losing their social media accounts is supposed to fill us with dread, sitting or no. It's almost become like a verbal tic. Everything that president said and did was covered by the press around the world, an army of spokespeople and a million online sycophants. He isn't (and certainly w…

> Everything that president said and did was covered by the press around the world, an army of spokespeople and a million online sycophants. Except virtually everyone I spoke to was unaware of what his final posts on social media on jan6 were, they were not covered, and they were lied about for years with no way for the public to see that in fact he called for people to go home peacefully on jan6. You can say things…

I saw his tortured video of asking the crowd to go home on January 6th, on TV, and then many times elsewhere. He made multiple takes, and himself inserted the line about "loving" the insurrectionists. What are you TALKING about? What lies? Be specific.

Re: Meta Ending Suspension of Trump’s Accounts

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Post by refurb »

nh23423fefe wrote: post #61
refurb wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But what specific terms did he break? https://www.oversightboard.com/news/226612455899839-oversigh... They said his comment "We have to have peace. So go home. We love you. You're very special." and "from great patriots who have been badly, unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love in peace. Remember this day forever!" As "praising or supporting people committing violence". He literally said "we have to have pe…

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Flagged for personal attack.

Re: Meta Ending Suspension of Trump’s Accounts

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Post by miffy900 »

ihatepython wrote: post #53
throwaway2729 wrote: post #44

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Yes. It was not his racist statements or his incompetence. It was what Adam Schiff did. For pete's sake, FBI literally handed him the 2016 election.

How many times did Bill Clinton go to Epstein's island? Are you OK with pedophiles?

Trump: "I’ve known Jeff [Epstein] for 15 years. Terrific guy, He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."

Apparently Trump is OK with pedophiles.

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