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Twitter says a new video from Trump doesn’t break the rules
The Verge aka Vox ^ | Jan 13, 2021, 8:05pm EST | Sean Hollister

Posted on 01/13/2021 8:02:44 PM PST by conservative98

Twitter told NBC it wasn’t technically ban evasion

On January 8th, Twitter permanently banned President Donald Trump, and proceeded to play whack-a-mole as he attempted to dodge that ban by using different Twitter accounts, each of which Twitter suspended in turn.

And yet less than a week later, a Trump video has been posted on the official @WhiteHouse account delivering a new video speech. The speech is not inflammatory — quite the opposite. It features Trump denouncing violence, lawbreaking, and vandalism.

It contains messages many might have hoped Trump would issue immediately during or perhaps even before the attack on the US Capitol, to avoid the violence and the five deaths that occurred.

Still, it’s very strange to see Trump’s face in a new Twitter video, considering such a video was one of the inciting incidents that got Trump kicked off the platform. Twitter initially removed that video due to a “risk of violence” before deciding it was too risky to allow Trump to retain an account at all... and yet he’s now able to publish a video speech to Twitter from a different account. When Twitter banned Trump, the company told us it would try to limit the use of even government accounts like @WhiteHouse if Trump tried to use them to evade his ban.

But Twitter told NBC reporter Dylan Byers that this doesn’t constitute a ban evasion at all.

When we asked how this doesn’t count as ban evasion, Twitter declined to comment.

(Excerpt) Read more at theverge.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: trump; trumptweet; twitter; voxsux; whitehousetwitter; whtwitter
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1 posted on 01/13/2021 8:02:44 PM PST by conservative98
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The Brownshirts at NBC and Vox are mad Trump got a video up on Twitter


2 posted on 01/13/2021 8:02:55 PM PST by conservative98
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pic.twitter.com/FIJbvCYGJ6— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 13, 2021


3 posted on 01/13/2021 8:05:20 PM PST by conservative98
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Twitter? That trashhole is still around???


4 posted on 01/13/2021 8:09:16 PM PST by cockroach_magoo
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Ban evasion? As if it’s illegal and Twitter is the law.


5 posted on 01/13/2021 8:09:54 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: conservative98
Can Vox show me where the banned Donald Trump videos allegedly touched them?

It is a false premise.

6 posted on 01/13/2021 8:10:21 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: conservative98

>> and proceeded to play whack-a-mole as he attempted to dodge that ban by using different Twitter accounts

No, whack-a-mole was Donald Trump firing Deep State bad actors who served as moles to “resist” and monkeywrench his agenda.


7 posted on 01/13/2021 8:11:48 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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. . . and the horse Dorsey rode in on.


8 posted on 01/13/2021 8:12:07 PM PST by BipolarBob (USA - Born July 4, 1776. Died Jan. 20, 2021 in the Year of our Covid.)
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To: conservative98

bookmark


9 posted on 01/13/2021 8:13:24 PM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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Looks like they want people back.


10 posted on 01/13/2021 8:14:12 PM PST by Maudeen (A question to answer, "Will my name be written in the Lamb's Book of Life?"(Revelation 20:15))
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Do you mean dorky Dorsey’s donkey-faced horsey?


11 posted on 01/13/2021 8:15:53 PM PST by cockroach_magoo
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Nice try, jerks. Now that they think Trump has been neutered, they’re trying to pretend to act reasonable hoping they can get back the people who left and thinking they can shed their well-earned image as social media tyrants. Only an idiot would fall for this and go back to Twitter. Eat it, Dorsey.


12 posted on 01/13/2021 8:19:52 PM PST by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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Yea because he was weak, gabe in and said exactly what they want him to say. Under these circumstances Trump can talk. Storm the gates, it would appear thry have taken down the leader of the troops


13 posted on 01/13/2021 8:20:03 PM PST by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: conservative98

Couldn’t “like” the video because I deleted my Twitter account. So, I just watched it. Not going back.


14 posted on 01/13/2021 8:26:45 PM PST by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: conservative98

Twitter days = numbered.... 5-4-3-


15 posted on 01/13/2021 8:26:54 PM PST by Safrguns
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I’m surprised Twitter didn’t take it down. We can’t let people see President trump calling for peace and calm. That has to be some kind of violation.


16 posted on 01/13/2021 8:39:31 PM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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Twuck Fitter.


17 posted on 01/13/2021 8:41:32 PM PST by Salamander (We're All Hamlet, Now....)
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Twitter initially removed that video due to a “risk of violence” before deciding it was too risky to allow Trump to retain an account at all..

"As usual, the face of Emmanuel Goldstein, the Enemy of the People, had flashed on to the screen. There were hisses here and there among the audience. The little sandy-haired woman gave a squeak of mingled fear and disgust. Goldstein was the renegade and backslider who once, long ago (how long ago, nobody quite remembered), had been one of the leading figures of the Party, almost on a level with Big Brother himself, and then had engaged in counter-revolutionary activities, had been condemned to death, and had mysteriously escaped and disappeared."
(1984)

18 posted on 01/13/2021 8:43:56 PM PST by Flick Lives (“ Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: Safrguns
Every chicken in the room...


19 posted on 01/13/2021 8:45:34 PM PST by Salamander (We're All Hamlet, Now....)
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To: Maudeen

Bingo- they want people back and they know once people stay away long enough they stay gone- example Fox


20 posted on 01/13/2021 8:51:43 PM PST by terart
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