Trump's Twitter account temporarily locked (the incitement of violence thing)

By artappraiser on Wed, 01/06/2021 - 10:22pm |

As a result of the unprecedented and ongoing violent situation in Washington, D.C., we have required the removal of three @realDonaldTrump Tweets that were posted earlier today for repeated and severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy. https://t.co/k6OkjNG3bM
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 7, 2021

This means that the account of @realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours following the removal of these Tweets. If the Tweets are not removed, the account will remain locked.
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 7, 2021

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https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1346970431039934464?s=20

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Maggie 3 hrs. ago:

Trump appears to have deleted at least two of the tweets that Twitter locked his account over.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 7, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 01/06/2021 - 10:25pm

They blocked my acct 12 hours for a joke about wishing Trump got a "bowel disorder" to wipe the smirk off his face (in line with #DiaperDonald and his colestomy bag)

Equal in seriousness to calling for an insurrection, no?

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 01/07/2021 - 1:42am

Did someone there really tell you that or are you just guessing that was the reason? Just curious!

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/07/2021 - 2:14am

oy lol black humor (from Lincoln Project Sr. Advisor)

Don't you think that if @realDonaldTrump has lost his Twitter privileges he should also lose the power to launch a missile strike?
— Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella) January 7, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/07/2021 - 12:51am

Lin Wood has been suspended pic.twitter.com/MakKxgRHdg
— Evan Rosenfeld (@Evan_Rosenfeld) January 7, 2021

He tried to do create a new account and that got suspended too: @fightbacklaw
— Trey (@Trey_xc) January 7, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/07/2021 - 2:01am

Facebook banning Trump for at least the next two weeks. Hard to overstate how big a change of heart this is for Zuck pic.twitter.com/512X57cAPX
— David Pierce (@pierce) January 7, 2021

These indefinite bans are going to cause a really interesting problem, because it's not like Trump is going to change when he's out of office. So when do you let him back? What are the rules going forward?
— David Pierce (@pierce) January 7, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/07/2021 - 1:05pm

Your move @jack https://t.co/ufMtm6qE8o
— Scott Galloway (@profgalloway) January 7, 2021

1pm, @jack arrives @twitter
1:30: board call

"Even @facebook looks less shitty than us"
"I'd rather not be remembered as the director who enabled this."
"We can't just label his damn tweets"
"Jack, are you asleep?"

Prediction: By COB, @potus account suspended
— Scott Galloway (@profgalloway) January 7, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/07/2021 - 1:07pm

I didn't see this third "Twitter Safety" tweet regarding Trump's account yesterday:

Future violations of the Twitter Rules, including our Civic Integrity or Violent Threats policies, will result in permanent suspension of the @realDonaldTrump account.
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 7, 2021

so yes, we'll see.

A reminder: two weeks and he's out of office. He would have to go to another outfit to continue to agitate his fans. He will just be another Qanon.

He doesn't follow the normal media rules of growing an audience by being more reasonable and therefore more attractive reading to a larger audience. He's a narcissist troll, he goes for outrage, making up stories that agitate and aggravate normal people.

The problem as I see it:

our free speech system works on the basis that trolls will be ridiculed and ignored by the majority with common sense and have a small audience (i.e. Alex Jones)
he was president of the United States and has a large audience and other people check on what he's saying to check on wassup with him and them
this feeds his "ratings" which is all he really wants; he wants attention, but he has a lot of "followers" and does things like instigate riots. how do you not "feed the troll"?

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/07/2021 - 1:22pm

Facebook bans all praise of storming of US Capitol pic.twitter.com/sHhpfB01yx
— Darren J. Beattie (@DarrenJBeattie) January 7, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/07/2021 - 3:18pm

At last, all the "Camp Auschwitz" merchandize as been removed from TeeChip! Thanks to everyone who answered the call to action. Small changes can make a big difference. @AuschwitzMuseum https://t.co/3u9yiqtJH3
— Lindsey Fitzharris (@DrLindseyFitz) January 7, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/07/2021 - 4:03pm

note especially above that Facebook is banning calls for protests--even peaceful ones---if they violate D.C. curfew

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/07/2021 - 4:10pm

* Trump Organization's https://t.co/gjEbiPl1tY Is Taken Offline by Shopify

* Trump Campaign's Ecommerce Site Is Also Closed by Shopify

* Shopify Says It Closed Websites Associated With President Trump After Riot at Capitol

(via Dow Jones) $SHOP
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) January 7, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/07/2021 - 3:48pm

Josh Hawley gonna have real hard time publishing his book now:

pic.twitter.com/NdIkmGbCFI
— Simon & Schuster (@simonschuster) January 7, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/07/2021 - 7:58pm

SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter has suspended 70,000 accounts linked to QAnon conspiracy theory
— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) January 12, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 01/11/2021 - 9:01pm

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