Twitter Bans President Trump (Finally!!)

[Sarcany]

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/08/954760928...f-violence

"After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence," the company said in a statement announcing the ban...

[Lemon Drop]

Buh bye

[NewtonMP2100]

.......seeya.......

[PeterB]

And they waited this long to do this, why...?

Twitter, Fb, and the other social media companies (I'm looking at you, Parler) need to take responsibility for the fact that if you just let anyone get on there and say anything they like, you are enabling them and allowing them to commit offenses.

[Lemon Drop]

Hope they've got really good security over at the Twitter offices. .

Apple has told Parler that if they don't add moderation to their site, they'll be removed from the app store.

[sekker]

Apple and Google are getting a LOT of pressure to remove the Parler app from their app stores.

[p8712]

Twitler in the bunker time.

[rgG]

Finally.
Wonder if his head has exploded yet?

[Lux Interior]

sekker wrote:
Apple and Google are getting a LOT of pressure to remove the Parler app from their app stores.

I heard that Apple has removed it.

[Sarcany]

PeterB wrote:
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.