Twitter-locked

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Ophelia Benson

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Now they’re getting serious.

https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1346970431039934464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1346970431039934464%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2Flive%2F2021%2Fjan%2F06%2Fgeorgia-election-latest-news-senate-ossoff-warnock-democrats-republicans-trump-biden

The social media giant added, “Future violations of the Twitter Rules, including our Civic Integrity or Violent Threats policies, will result in permanent suspension of the @realDonaldTrump account.”

Do it either way.

Queen Melania’s chief of staff has quit.

[Stepahnie] Grisham was one of the longest-serving Trump administration officials, having begun her tenure working for then-candidate Donald Trump in 2015 as a press wrangler on the campaign trail. Grisham entered the White House as deputy press secretary under Sean Spicer, but in March 2017, Melania Trump hired her for her East Wing staff. As East Wing communications director, Grisham quickly became the first lady’s most prominent staffer, acting as defender, enforcer and, often, protector.

But armed insurrection proved to be a step too far.

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9 responses to “Twitter-locked”

  1. Omar Avatar
    Omar

    Good move. Could avoid the embarrassment of fake tweets. Though, coming as they all have done from a fake orange canary, what else could they be?

  2. tigger_the_wing Avatar
    tigger_the_wing

    So, a social media company will do what the famous ‘checks and balances’ have proved impotent to do – silence a traitor.

  3. Holms Avatar
    Holms

    ^ Very belatedly, but yes. Still better than the checks and balances.

  4. GW Avatar
    GW

    So Twitter is *finally* using their silencing power to do something good, after years of silencing gender-critical feminists and enabling King Donald?

  5. Roj Blake Avatar
    Roj Blake

    Cue the outraged screams of FreezePeach, from the believers in small government who want the government to tell TwitterBook how to run their businesses.

  6. Omar Avatar
    Omar

    The sense of anger within a Republican party at war with itself was increasingly in full view. “[Trump] screwed his supporters, he screwed the country and now he’s screwed himself,” a 2016 Trump campaign official told Politico.

    Sounds to me like a good old Roman orgy. Call it a screwfest. Like the scenes in Hitler’s bunker as the Third Reich collapsed around him.

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    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/07/trump-adviser-resigns-two-other-senior-officials-consider-quitting-matt-pottinger

  7. tigger_the_wing Avatar
    tigger_the_wing

    And now Facebook and Instagram have initiated 24 hour bans.

  8. Screechy Monkey Avatar
    Screechy Monkey

    I don’t think it’s a coincidence that social media companies are suddenly willing to take action against Trump just after it’s become clear that Democrats are going to control the House, Senate, and White House.

  9. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    tigger, make that at least 312 hours:

    Donald Trump will be suspended from Facebook and Instagram indefinitely and at least until the end of his time in office, Mark Zuckerberg has said, as a consequence of his support for the rioters who stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/07/donald-trump-twitter-ban-comes-to-end-amid-calls-for-tougher-action

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