Donald Trump
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They should have been consistent and banned him a long time ago. Any other person would have been banned hundreds of times for the things he posted. So this is Twitter finally applying the rules to Trump, not the other way around.
And if there was ever an argument for banning someone from Twitter this is it. He is a deeply unstable person who is issuing orders to millions of people. He incited his followers to actually break into Congress to overthrow an election lol. So why would you take the risk, legal and otherwise, of keeping his account going?
Having said that knowing the level of political discussion in America right now a lot of people will ignore all of that and simply equate this with "big tech censorship." And then call for terrible solutions like Section 230 of the Communications Act being repealed, which has nothing to do with free speech.
You can already hear the Joe Rogans of the world..."OK sure breaking into Congress was bad but these tech companies bro...they literally destroyed the First Amendment" *takes bong hit
So I'm kind of ambivalent about this decision. I understand why they did it on the merits (and may have been forced to for legal or financial reasons), but it's hard to see how this doesn't just pour gasoline on the dumpster fire that is US politics.
- strategically the best thing was NOT to ban him. and yes, he should have been kicked out years ago even before the presidency. vile cunt that he is.renderedred
- I'm also ambivalent about it. I don't think they did the right thing but rather the convenient one.palimpsest
- They don't have my sympathy but I can't find an argument against it.palimpsest
- section 230 is not an issue, something is very wrong with these social media companies and their setup to begin with.renderedred
- Yeah it's very clear now they encourage rampant sensationalism, misinformation and conspiracies. What is shocking is how many people in an educated societyyuekit
- fall for it...I never would have guessed in a million years you'd see something like this.yuekit
- Maybe it's not about the law and there is simply a better way to structure these apps (in terms of user experience etc) so we can avoid negative side of them.yuekit
- i agree, fundamentally something has to change in the concept of social media itself.renderedred
- i was also surprised how far it went.renderedred
- Did the right thing, Trump is/was too dangerous and insane. Fuel for the fire is reduced that way.neverscared