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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.

I'm not trying to valorize Jack, but why is it so hard to believe they just finally feel some level of responsibility? While you should always keep an eye out for more banal motivations, at some point one can only tolerate so much.

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

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post #61

'Trump's phrase "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" is an unattributed quote of Walter Headley, Miami's police chief in 1967. It was a threat to citizens who were upset that police had terrorized a black teenager by holding him over a bridge.' ( https://twitter.com/mattsheffield/status/1266246092393336838 )

An unattributed quote?

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

#73
Send all of the middle east into meltdown, as militants foment biblical anarchy, engage in AK-47 raids, snipe tanks with RPG attacks and indirect fire, and oh right, the beheadings, but woah, woah, woah.

Trumpy say pee pee and poo poo, and that's a no no.

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

#74
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?

Have you looked up the context of that quote? Here is where that quote originated from Miami Police Chief Walter Headley. It’s very clear the implication is the use of law enforcement and police brutality.

“In declaring war on 'young hoodlums, from 15 to 21, who have taken advantage of the civil rights campaign,' Headley said, 'we don’t mind being accused of police brutality.'

'They haven’t seen anything, yet.'

Headley said Miami hasn't been troubled with racial disturbances and looting because he let the word filter down, 'When the looting starts, the shooting starts.'"

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19671228.2.19&e=--...

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

#75
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post #45

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Sounds like maybe you should take the hint. It's not "taking sides" to point out that you're glorifying violence if you as the president are threatening to deploy military force against protestors.

Sending police to stop violence is "glorifying violence"? How exactly?

Sigh. Really.

The tweets didn’t offer “sending in the police” it threatened to send the military in. Which isn’t the police.

Word matter. The fact I’m m reading this comment here is sad.

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

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post #62
post #59

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The National Guard would go to stop violence, wouldn't it? Pretty interesting how people even here try to invert the situation for political reasons.

You tell me, he quite literally says the military is with him and ready to shoot when people start looting. Please tell me how I am inverting the situation? Or should I use your translation book to make sense of his tweets?

If those "people" started looting my property i would have very much liked for someone to shoot them

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

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post #62
post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The National Guard would go to stop violence, wouldn't it? Pretty interesting how people even here try to invert the situation for political reasons.

You tell me, he quite literally says the military is with him and ready to shoot when people start looting. Please tell me how I am inverting the situation? Or should I use your translation book to make sense of his tweets?

> You tell me, he quite literally says the military is with him and ready to shoot when people start looting.

He didn't literally say that. The National Guard would be acting in a role very similar to the police when there is rioting.

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

#78
Twitter's problem is that Trump wants to pick a fight, and there's no good way to avoid it.

Trump's base is not on Twitter. Fact checking tweets provides more grist for the outrage mill, and the media which his base consumes amplifies the conflict and not the substance. So the tweets will get worse and worse.

It's impossible to give Twitter good advice, it's a horrible position to be in.

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

#79
Twitter policy:

"We start from a position of assuming that people do not intend to violate our Rules. Unless a violation is so egregious that we must immediately suspend an account, we first try to educate people about our Rules and give them a chance to correct their behavior. We show the violator the offending Tweet(s), explain which Rule was broken, and require them to remove the content before they can Tweet again. If someone repeatedly violates our Rules then our enforcement actions become stronger. This includes requiring violators to remove the Tweet(s) and taking additional actions like verifying account ownership and/or temporarily limiting their ability to Tweet for a set period of time. If someone continues to violate Rules beyond that point then their account may be permanently suspended."

Somewhere a counter was just incremented. It's going to be amusing if Twitter management simply lets the automated system do its thing. At some point, after warnings, the standard 48-hour suspension will trigger. Twitter management can simply simply say "it is our policy not to comment on enforcement actions".

They've suspended the accounts of prominent people many times before.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_suspensions

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

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post #61

'Trump's phrase "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" is an unattributed quote of Walter Headley, Miami's police chief in 1967. It was a threat to citizens who were upset that police had terrorized a black teenager by holding him over a bridge.' ( https://twitter.com/mattsheffield/status/1266246092393336838 )

An unattributed quote?

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