Twitter Bans President Trump (Finally!!)

[hal]

that was a very strange dance they did for a few days there.

12 hour suspension...

is back - posts a decentish video

indefinite suspension

is back - posts that he won't go to the inaugural

perm suspension

frankly, I never bought the need to allow heads of state to break the rules. It's not as if they don't have a means to put their words out to the world. If twitter or FB didn't like what he was posting, they could block him and he could have a press conference that will be covered by every press entity in the country - how many social media folks have that as an option when their accounts are suspended?

[$tevie]

At last I can stop obsessively hitting my alarm, grabbing my phone, and sitting up in bed to read what Agolf Twitler is ranting about today.

[rgG]

I never understood how it was ok for Twitter to be the way we learned what was going on with the POTUS.

[Ted King]

Ouch. That's got hurt Trump as much as anything (except maybe losing the election). I'm serious. I think it's going to emotionally hurt him quite a lot.

[rgG]

Ted King wrote:
Ouch. That's got hurt Trump as much as anything (except maybe losing the election). I'm serious. I think it's going to emotionally hurt him quite a lot.

Awe, well bless his heart. :RollingEyesSmiley5:

I do agree with you, and I am glad he will lose something he cares about.

[$tevie]

Now how will we know when he releases his health care plan?? :S

[PeterB]

Sarcany wrote:
[quote=PeterB]
And they waited this long to do this, why...?

Little to go on, but to me it seems obvious.

It's a reflection of the different ways the companies are run. Neither one wanted him, but both made lots of money off of his presence. They needed the right circumstances to kick them and then they needed to work it through the command-structure.

Facebook is run from the top-down. Zuckerberg made the call to ban 45 as soon as it became clear that the Dems were going to be making the decisions about regulating his company. He's egocentric, confident in his ability to come out on top, but still trying to gain favor to smooth the road ahead.

Twitter's people needed time to debate and document the case, to figure the legal and moral ramifications and to work out how their own people would react, as well as how various factions in their audience would view it and how that would impact advertising and their future profitability.
It was a rhetorical question, I already knew the answer, but ... I think my issue is really that people confuse freedom of speech with a lack of responsibility for speech. Yes, you can say virtually anything you want, but that doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't be held accountable to what you say. The social media companies encourage people to say whatever is on their minds (a dubious concept for sure), but don't take any responsibility for being the facilitator in what can quite often devolve into hate speech.

[GGD]

$tevie wrote:
Now how will we know when he releases his health care plan?? :S

And how will he fire people.

[$tevie]

Google bans Parler app and Apple could do the same after Capitol Hill attack

The Twitter alternative has 24 hours to start improving content moderation or Apple will expel it from the App Store, according to BuzzFeed. Google removed the Android app.

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-bans-pa...ll-attack/

[hal]

I don't want to see twitter killed - I hope they figure it out. Parler can go fuck itself faic.