Profoundly dangerous to open democratic debate
Trump thinks Twitter should be forced, forced, to let him use Twitter to incite insurrection and civil war.
“Plaintiff Donald J. Trump respectfully moves for a preliminary injunction directing, inter alia, Defendant Twitter, Inc. and all persons acting in concert with Defendant, to reinstate Plaintiff’s access to Defendant’s social media platform(s),” the filing said.
It argued that Twitter was “censoring” Trump by indefinitely banning him from the platform, adding that the company “exercises a degree of power and control over political discourse in this country that is immeasurable, historically unprecedented, and profoundly dangerous to open democratic debate.”
Violent insurrection and civil war are not open democratic debate. Trump has zero interest in open democratic debate.
Twitter banned Trump from its platform on Jan. 8, stating that two of his tweets had violated the company’s policies and citing “the risk of further incitement of violence.” The unprecedented move came after the riot on Jan. 6 in which hundreds of Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attack that resulted in five deaths and left about 140 police officers injured.
Not open democratic debate.
Trumpski will take on all comers. He needs to be on Twitter to mass debate.
I actually 100% agreed with the argument advanced…when applied to anyone but Trump himself. It’s a good one, even if it’s not really got legal merit.
Considering the fact that Trump once walked in the footsteps of the erudite Thomas Jefferson and sat at his same desk, I think it would be a reasonable request that Trump put his thoughts down in a book, rather than just a tweet. A canary puts its concentrated thought into a tweet, but I contend and am confident that there is a chance of a hope of a possibility that it may eventually perhaps be proven that Trump can out-think any canary, though perhaps not out-tweet one.
Maybe a good title would be The Collected Tweets of Donald Trump with a subtitle Colored in all by himself. I would recommend that some pictures be drawn by Trump, but left to his devoted followers to colour in, all by themselves. Sales should go through the roof, particularly if crayons are supplied as part of a package deal.
Never mind that for years, Donald Trump was in violation of the terms of service and community standards that everyone not Donald Trump was held to.
Well, Trump and trans cultists… Probably the Taliban as well at this point though I can’t say I follow them.