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posted by martyb on Tuesday May 23 2017, @12:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the closing-the-barn-door dept.

If anyone knows how important Twitter is to Donald Trump, it's the president.

“Without the tweets, I wouldn't be here,” he told the Financial Times last month.

To which Twitter's co-founder says: Sorry about that, world.

Evan Williams, who still sits on the company's board of directors, recently told The New York Times that he wants to repair the damage he thinks Twitter and the broader Internet have wrought on society in the form of trolls, cyberbullies, live-streamed violence, fake news and — yes — Trump.

“I thought once everybody could speak freely and exchange information and ideas, the world is automatically going to be a better place,” Williams told the Times. “I was wrong about that.”

“If it’s true that he wouldn’t be president if it weren’t for Twitter, then yeah, I’m sorry,” he said.

Is Twitter responsible?


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  • (Score: 2) by Sulla on Tuesday May 23 2017, @02:46PM (2 children)

    by Sulla (5173) on Tuesday May 23 2017, @02:46PM (#514279) Journal

    Okay guys, looks like free speech was a mistake! Lets wait until we have a dem president and go full dictatorship so this can't happen again!

    Other than being an ass, what has Trump done that has been so bad? And what he has done bad, show me that any of the prior four presidents or major opposition candidates would not have done the same.

    1) He did bomb Syria, but he did not keep bombing Syria? So I guess he breaks from Clinton policy there.
    2) Killed TTP, radically different than everyone.
    3) Weapons sold to the Saudis. If selling to human rights violators is apples to apples, same as Obama who sold to Vietnam.
    4) Tariffs on Canadian softwoods. This is pretty interesting, wood prices will go up but my neck of the woods might actually be able to make a profit selling wood again, which will drastically help our local schools.
    5) Be a general ass. This is in excess of probably the past four presidents combined.
    6) Has made no "changes"/"progress" to health care, wall, most of his platform.
    7) Made some really bad hiring decisions. I personally would like to see Flynn with some prison time.
    8) Made Christie eat meatloaf
    9) Had two scoops of icecream
    10) Had his hand batted away by his wife
    11) Apparently has Alzheimers
    12) Is overweight
    13) Is orange

    We need to make sure to impeach him for the last 8-13 as that's how he is really destroying America.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 23 2017, @06:49PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 23 2017, @06:49PM (#514459)

    And what he has done bad, show me that any of the prior four presidents or major opposition candidates would not have done the same.

    So Trump is at least as much of an authoritarian scumbag as they are? Is that it? I don't see how that's much of a defense. Or were you not intending to defend him at all?

    • (Score: 2) by Sulla on Tuesday May 23 2017, @07:57PM

      by Sulla (5173) on Tuesday May 23 2017, @07:57PM (#514494) Journal

      I am happy everyone everywhere is bitching, I am mad they will shut up and stop caring as soon as Trump is gone but the government continues business as usual.

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