Twitter permanently suspended President Donald Trump’s account on Friday, citing “the risk of further incitement of violence.”
Not to mention further lies and abuse and bullying.
The company banned the president’s account after years of public pressure and several attempts to limit the reach of his account in recent days. Hundreds of Twitter employees signed a letter urging Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to ban the president for using the platform to incite violence in the wake of the Capitol siege.
“In the context of horrific events this week, we made it clear on Wednesday that additional violations of the Twitter Rules would potentially result in this very course of action,” Twitter said in a blog post. “Our public interest framework exists to enable the public to hear from elected officials and world leaders directly. It is built on a principle that the people have a right to hold power to account in the open.”
But when the power in question is a psychopath that doesn’t work.
In the post, the company cited Trump’s two most recent tweets as an explanation for the removal.
In one, Trump wrote: “The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”
In the next, he tweeted, “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”
Taken together, the company determined, they were “likely to inspire others to replicate the violent acts that took place on January 6, 2021, and that there are multiple indicators that they are being received and understood as encouragement to do so.”
It seems like a no-brainer, but the evil people are doing what they do.
“Disgusting. Big Tech wants to cancel all 75M @realDonaldTrump supporters,” tweeted Jason Miller, a senior advisor to Trump’s 2020 campaign.
Nikki Haley, the former ambassador to the United Nations, tweeted: “Silencing people, not to mention the President of the US, is what happens in China not our country. #Unbelievable”
And armed insurrectionist attacking the heart of government is what happens in Belarus and our country.
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10 responses to “Never to hear thy sweet chirrup more alas”
From Twitter’s blog post
I read that on 4chan /pol/. The attacks would be the 19th (before Inauguration Day the 20th), but the 17th letter of the alphabet is Q.
Twitter and the rest are also clamping down on the MAGA morons, so they’re taking to Parler and 4chan to cry their tears. They’re feeling hurt and betrayed because Trump made that video condoning the riot. Bless them!
This poor sap has just learnt that Trump does not do loyalty.
Maybe you should have been paying attention for the last four years, reprobate.
One idiot left it a tad late to think about consequences.
Yeah, pillock, masks are useful after all.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/08/trump-incites-anger-among-acolytes-let-down-by-lack-of-support
Twitter has been complicit with trump all along as have the rest of the republican field. Any backpedalling or show of opposition to trump now is just that: a show. There is no reason to read sincerity into the actions now taken when it might hurt the business. If trump had won, it would be business as, what has come to be, usual.
Oh sure. This isn’t a hymn of praise to Twitter, at least I didn’t intend it to be – it’s just relief (and gloating) that the murderous crook can’t use it any more.
zubanel, it looks to me like Twitter is just joining the group of White House staffers who are fleeing the fire they helped build, hoping it won’t burn them down. The stuff he posted in the past couple of days wasn’t really all that worse than the stuff he posted all along; it’s just now he has become a liability.
Ophelia Benson #5
iknklast #6
Twitter is just showing how brave they are now that the Orange Man has only days to go in office – too little too late in my book. As for the violence being BAD excuse? Nah, miss me with that, Twitter, because there are men like Clymer and Chu putting up posts absolutely relishing the death of Ashli Babbit and wishing the same would happen to all us uppity “terf” women.
Oh, jeez, really?
Southwest, do you have links to those tweets? I found one from Chu but it didn’t mention terfs, and nothing from Clymer.
I found Chu on https://twitter.com/janeclarejones/status/1347189078329069568/photo/1 and Dr. Jane Clare Jones twitter feed. Neither man made a specific “terf” issue but their delight in an “enemy” women being killed is unnerving all the same.
Ah – I saw that one, and commented on it at the time. Took a look at Chu’s current “work” as a result; as always, not a fan.
I still don’t see anything from Clymer though. I don’t want to accuse people of stuff they’re not doing.