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The President of the United States of America lost the crucial ability to Tweet for an 11 minute timespan on Thursday (Nov. 2), following the temporary deactivation of his Twitter account by a Twitter employee who was being let go by the company. The incident has raised questions about the safeguards in place for high-profile Twitter users:
This is the way the world ends: not with a bang but a deleted Twitter account. At least, so it appeared for 11 minutes Thursday evening, when visitors to President Trump's personal account, @realDonaldTrump, were informed that there was no such thing.
[...] Amid a presidency that has seemed, at times, to be conducted primarily in 140-character pieces, this was a seismic event — and what was left of Twitter erupted. It was a raucous, modern-day town-square gathering of the sort not seen since ... well, since five months ago, when Mr. Trump coined a new word in the middle of the night.
[...] The answer, revealed three hours later, was something straight out of "Office Space." After saying in an initial statement that the account had been "inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee," Twitter announced that a rogue customer support worker had done it on his or her last day at the company.
Previously: Twitter Shadowbans Republican Frontrunner
Twitter Co-founder: I'm Sorry if We Made Trump's Presidency Possible
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 08 2017, @04:49PM (6 children)
I didn't say "banned", I said "ban by Twitter's terms of service".
No, that is not violence.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday November 08 2017, @05:04PM (5 children)
Perhaps you misunderstood or maybe I was unclear. I was trying to suggest that nuclear war is violence. Not that the tweet is violence. But that the tweet hinting at nuclear war, wink wink, is effectively hinting at violence. Nonetheless, we've wandered far into the weeds of irrelevancies.
Don't put a mindless tool of corporations in the white house; vote ChatGPT for 2024!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 08 2017, @05:26PM (4 children)
Twitter posts about nuclear war aren't nuclear war.
So what? We should be thinking here violations of terms of service, not what is "arguable" [soylentnews.org].
And from a practical point of view, banning people for "hinting at violence" would remove a significant portion of Twitter users unfairly for using normal rhetorical devices. You're "fighting for the rights of workers"? You "shot yourself in the foot"? Your employer "gave you the shaft"? Or making gallows humor jokes (like "hinting at nuclear war")?
It isn't nor should be Twitter's responsibility to police its users for such things.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @07:50PM (3 children)
Jesus christ, turns out the real SJW types are the ones that throw that acronym around. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, projection is the #1 flaw of Republicans and Libertarians, as a generalization.
I absolutely love when a real libertarian hops into some "libertarian" discussion and calls out the morons on their bullshit. "No, that isn't very libertarian at all, more like anarcho-capitalist." -- being the most frequent response to idiots who believe they're libertarians.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 08 2017, @08:16PM (2 children)
I grant that there are would-be libertarians unclear on what the concept means or who project their own flaws on others.
But the basic premise of your second paragraph is flawed. Anarcho-capitalism is not mutually exclusive with libertarianism. There are people who are both.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @11:19PM (1 child)
Don't let the real point hit you in the ass on your way out.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 08 2017, @11:37PM
But if you're willing to try to make that point in a way that I would interested in responding to, then I'm willing to try to listen.