Posted on 11/30/2016 9:56:55 AM PST by mandaladon
The president-elect of the United States is a notorious troll — a fact which his promise to ban Muslims from entering the country, threat to imprison and strip Americans of citizenship for exercising their First Amendment rights, and widespread insulting of people online all make clear. We now learn via Slate that the two technology platforms Donald Trump uses most prominently to spread his messages of hate and division, Twitter and Facebook, take a very different stance on how to respond to future instances of harassment by Trump. Namely, Twitter says it would consider suspending his account. Facebook, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg (mostly) denies contributed to Trump's victory by means of spreading fake news, not so much. The publication reached out to Twitter directly and inquired whether top government officials could ever lose access to their accounts for violating the site's rules. “The Twitter Rules prohibit violent threats, harassment, hateful conduct, and multiple account abuse, and we will take action on accounts violating those policies,” a spokesperson responded. When asked if those standards apply to Trump, who The Guardian reports will soon be given the handle @POTUS, the spokesperson replied in the affirmative. “The Twitter Rules apply to all accounts, including verified accounts.” Twitter has previously banned so-called "alt-right" a.k.a. white supremacist trolls. That the future president of this country could fall into that category reflects a sad state of affairs. And yet, according the company, Twitter Rules are Twitter Rules. If Trump violates them, his account could be sanctioned in some form or another. Facebook, for its part, says it has a slightly more nuanced view of things.
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Do it, Twitter.
prove who you really are.
Go to Gab?
twitter must be figuring that bankruptcy is cool.
A poster here saw this coming...asked what would happen if Twitter banned him.
Love to see Zuckerberg vs the United States. Let’s start the tax audits. :O)
Sore losers still I see. There is nothing offensive or inflammatory in Trump’s tweets other than the fact that the Libs hate the very sight of him and he is living rent-free in their heads.
Cancelling TRUMP’S Twitter account would lead to a conservative “Twitter” and all would switch over to the new system.
There is Gab.ai which is becoming an alternate to Twitter.
It would take less than a week for a new platform to appear and be geared to strictly conservatives. Then you’d watch 40,000 people a day quit Twitter and in three months...across not just the US but Europe...Twitter would standing there and then admitting it was a host for only liberal commentary, with half of it’s advertising cut.
Please do it
I beg you, Twitter, do it. It’ll be the biggest mistake you’ve made so far. Worse than banning MILO.
Good luck with it.
They haven’t found one statement of Trump that violates Twitter standards.
Differences of opinion aren’t grounds for banning people.
If Twitter wants to suicide itself, then go for it.
It will definitely come back to bite them if they do.
It would be a lot easier to have a family member BUY Twitter. They are having trouble finding a buyer.
This would be the biggest gift to competition that Twitter could ever give.
Do it.
Just do it.
He would be welcome here........by most.
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