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posted by janrinok on Sunday January 07 2018, @11:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the It's-not-bannable-if-it's-the-president's-tweet dept.

Many Twitter users have reported threats of genocide and the use of weapons of mass destruction by one Twitterati in particular, but Twitter does not think these violate the terms of usage at Twitter. Tweet, at Mashable.

The President of the United States possibly made another threat of nuclear war on Twitter, but the company doesn't seem to think the post breaks any of its rules. Donald Trump boasted on Twitter about how his nuclear button was bigger than North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's, and people are calling (again) for the president to be banned from the platform.

Folks on Twitter are asking the platform whether this violates its policy against violent threats. So far the response from Twitter has been in the form of an automated response in which Twitter says Trump's message represents "no violation of the Twitter Rules against abusive behavior."

Mashable checked, just in case:

Twitter confirmed to Mashable that "this Tweet did not violate our terms of service," referencing the Twitter Rules against violent threats and glorification of violence.

"You may not make specific threats of violence or wish for the serious physical harm, death, or disease of an individual or group of people," the rules state.

So it seems that if you are going to threaten serious "physical harm, death or disease" on Twitter, be sure to include everyone by using nukes, instead of just one individual or group.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by VLM on Sunday January 07 2018, @02:10PM (2 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 07 2018, @02:10PM (#619149)

    I dunno why I have always to defend politician Trump

    I'm guessing you're not from the USA? The leftist establishment in total control of the media and academia has SEVERE "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and this is one of many a fever spikes.

    Everyone at the gym the day this came out (a couple days ago) was laughing their ass off at Trump's "mine's bigger" joke reply every time it came up on TV while also watching purple haired cat ladies on TV splutter and foam at the mouth in rage about it, and laughing at the cat ladies. Leftists trying to one up each other in holiness signalling is extremely unappealing to normies and what makes it comical is the leftists can't see it, like a kick me sign on their butts; aside from simply being funny, this kind of situation is how you manufacture Trump voters.

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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by jmorris on Sunday January 07 2018, @05:52PM

    by jmorris (4844) on Sunday January 07 2018, @05:52PM (#619219)

    Yup, it is amazing how they can fail to get the dick joke Trump was using on Lil Rocket Man. Of course they do get it, our so called media is all kabuki theatre, virtue signaling and autistic screeching. Reeeeeeeeeeee!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 08 2018, @11:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 08 2018, @11:19AM (#619475)

    Are you for real?