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Twitter permanently suspends Trump's account:
US President Donald Trump has been permanently suspended from Twitter "due to the risk of further incitement of violence", the company says.
Twitter said the decision was made "after close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them".
Mr Trump had earlier been locked out of his account for 12 hours.
Twitter then said that it would ban Mr Trump "permanently" if he breached the platform's rules again.
Reacting to the permanent ban, Trump 2020 campaign adviser Jason Miller tweeted: "Disgusting... if you don't think they're coming for you next, you're wrong."
It comes after Mr Trump tweeted several messages on Wednesday, calling the people who stormed the US Capitol "patriots".
Hundreds of his supporters entered the Capitol building as the US Congress attempted to certify Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election. The ensuing violence led to the deaths of four civilians and a police officer.
The siege took place just hours after Trump addressed supporters and told them: "We will never give up; we will never concede."
[...] On Thursday, Facebook said it had suspended Mr Trump "indefinitely". The popular gaming platform Twitch also placed an indefinite ban on the outgoing president's channel, which he has used for rally broadcasts. So has Snapchat.
Two online Trump memorabilia stores were closed this week by e-commerce company Shopify. On Friday, Reddit banned its "donaldtrump" forum for the president's supporters.
[...] The big question now is, can Trumpism survive without the backing of mainstream media? Or will it simply slip into the shadows of the internet?
(Emphasis retained from original.)
Also at Ars Technica, CNET
Full Twitter explanation at: blog.twitter.com
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Tork on Saturday January 09 2021, @09:13PM (27 children)
Umm... yeah that big conspiracy that made social media collude both simultaneously and odoriferously was an attempted insurrection where people DIED. 🙄
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @09:21PM (15 children)
Yeah, they shut all that shit down with CHAZ/CHOP.
Oh, wait.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @09:26PM (14 children)
Peaceful occupation vs. violent insurrection. Methinks you idiots don't understand the concept of personal responsibility. Sure is fun watching domestic terrorists get arrested though.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @09:53PM (10 children)
There was definitely violence and deaths at CHAZ/CHOP. Here we had one officer die, which would be a badge of honor for any antifa. You can decide whether a pig's life is worth more or less than the others. Aside from that, there was some furniture and windows damaged, but the priceless art collection went unscathed.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @10:04PM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @11:03PM (1 child)
You are force fed slop until you regurgitate. It's cumming out of all your holes.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday January 10 2021, @04:09PM
Pot calling kettle...yeah!, We're both black!
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by helel on Sunday January 10 2021, @02:47AM (1 child)
CHAZ/CHOP [vox.com] was in effect for about three weeks before two people were killed with neither incident having anything to do with the protest. The only accusation that stands against the protesters is that if the police had still been active in the area they might have intervened in time to prevent the deaths.
By contrast there's no doubt at all that it was Trumps rioters who murdered Brian Sicknick [nytimes.com] and trampled Rosanne Boyland [nypost.com] to death.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @04:23AM
Bears repeating. Not like that cowardly teen, or the delinquent with a Dodge, these people killed a police officer who was serving the United States. They are rebels, murderers, and scum. The tread on the woman with the "don't tread on me" flag! And killed her! How low can the right go? Bad enough when it was just indefinite detention without charge, or separating children from their parents at the border, or allowing Stephen Miller to attempt to breed, but now this.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by janrinok on Sunday January 10 2021, @03:56PM (4 children)
It ceased to be a peaceful protest the moment you forced a way through the security cordon. You could have stopped there and nobody could have done anything about it.
Once it was no longer a peaceful process you were responsible collectively for what subsequently occurred.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday January 11 2021, @02:36PM (2 children)
The same game was played with criticism of the Floyd protests. People who legally protested were lumped with the rioters, looters, and arsonists who also came out to play. As we've long ago discovered, you can't have collective responsibility over something you don't collectively control.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @10:28PM (1 child)
Ooooh, khallow might be edging towards self-awareness!
Couple of problems though.
a) BLM protesters were punished by being physically assaulted and arrested
b) Every insurrectionist that breached the barriers is guilty of at least felony trespassing if they did not participate in any of the violence
c) Bears repeating, peaceful protesters were punished
d) Collective responsibility != legal repercussions, but you should at least have the courage to denounce these seditious cunts instead of constantly downplaying isur-fucking-rection
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday January 13 2021, @11:58PM
Like you have the courage to blow a protest way out of proportion? "seditious"? "isur-fucking-rection"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @05:32PM
Well, no, they could have gassed and rubber bulleted them as soon as authority decided they were no longer peacable, just like they did to BLM.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday January 10 2021, @02:29PM
Keep in mind who got "peacefully" occupied. When you can't run a business or live in your home because some violent squatters took over the block, it's not peaceful occupation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @05:32PM (1 child)
Talk to the people who actually lived in the area. It was hardly peaceful, even if you count protection rackets as peaceful.
But they were explicitly calling themselves outside the scope of the US governments. See the big "Now leaving the US" sign. This is indeed sedition. If that's the excuse, apply it evenly. Hahahahaha. Yeah, that'll happen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @08:29PM
Poor idiots, one day you'll grow up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @09:56PM (10 children)
To bring about real change, we both have to highlight a problem and make people in power uncomfortable.
I just don't know why there aren't uprisings all over the country. Maybe there will be.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Tork on Sunday January 10 2021, @02:01AM (9 children)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @04:43AM (8 children)
If you're a D there was no substance to the allegations. That's what I hate about you Ds- smug arrogance. Everyone who disagrees with you all is an idiot, moron, doesn't deserve to live. About 1/2 of the US population. Maybe more if votes could be counted accurately. You who preach equality, rail against racism- well, unless someone is committing racism against whiteys. Or anyone you deem idiots. Pompous eliteists.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Tork on Sunday January 10 2021, @04:48AM
Another reply, yet still no substance. 💩
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Sunday January 10 2021, @06:51AM
Not only if you are a D is there no substance to the allegations, Republican judges found no substance to the allegations. And so, yes, you are correct, everyone who disagrees is an idiot, or a moron, and quite possibly both (cf. Runaway1956), and probably does not deserve to live, but the charity of the Liberal half of the nation keeps them going with disability benefits, social security, unemployment benefits, and all the other programs that these idiot morons try to scam. Actually, they do not deserve to live, but we keep them around because, Family means no one gets left behind. No matter how batshit crazy they have become by being sucked into the QAnon world. How crazy have you become, AC? Do you kneed an intervention? Post your particulars, and we can notify your family. And if you have no family, we can either alert the SWAT team, or tell you where to get a real deal on a single use RV. Your choice, let us know.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by khallow on Sunday January 10 2021, @02:32PM (3 children)
I'm willing to grant that you probably are an idiot. That the election fraud claims were shot down so fast in court strongly indicates that they were baseless. I certainly wouldn't raid the Capitol building for something so flimsy.
(Score: 1, Troll) by hemocyanin on Monday January 11 2021, @05:23AM (2 children)
This is mostly untrue -- the claims in case after case were largely dismissed on technicalities like standing or laches, often warped beyond their usual application. This means that any evaluation of the evidence was intentionally avoided. I'd suggest the dissents in the WI Supreme Court case to get a better understanding of how seriously the judicial branch abdicated its power.
https://www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&seqNo=315395 [wicourts.gov]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @06:35AM
Shut up, hemocyanin, you traitorous lime-lipped lizard. You object to the highest court in the land, because YOU know better? What an idiot! The WI Supreme court was stuffed with Republican treason clowns under Scott Walker, they have been overruled at every turn by non-insane judges. Now go an shut the fuck up, hemo! And tell your momma I told you so.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @02:45PM
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/federal-appeals-court-issues-stinging-rejection-trump-campaign/story?id=74431333 [go.com]
This sounds like it was decided on merits to me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/judges-trump-election-lawsuits/2020/12/12/e3a57224-3a72-11eb-98c4-25dc9f4987e8_story.html [washingtonpost.com]
This one seems like it was decided after people started claiming that the rejections were not on merits, and the judge stated his opinion specifically in a way to show that this is a false assertion.
(Score: 5, Informative) by janrinok on Sunday January 10 2021, @04:14PM
I'm not a D or a R. I am not an American.
From the outside looking in, nobody has shown to any courts satisfaction that any vote manipulation took place. Even Trumps lawyers admitted that they had no evidence. I know what the US media are reporting - and it depends on their own political bias. Try reading what the rest of the world are reading - from sources that do not have a D or R bias. Trump lost - but he had convinced himself that such a thing was unlikely, indeed he thought it was impossible. But he pissed off too many of the electorate which galvanized them into action bringing about what Trump did not believe could happen.
Where was the medicare announcement - always a few weeks away from being announced for almost 4 years? Where was the financial support for those who could not work because of the virus? How are the employment figures now compared to when he came into office. How is the national debt looking? How much iron/steel or coal industry has been restarted? How is the swamp looking now? Have there been more or fewer people being found guilty in court because of how they acted in support of a standing President. Why did he need them to act like this? Where are the tax cuts for the working man that he promised?
I'm sure you have answers that satisfy yourself - but from the outside looking in he just hasn't delivered. He has been a world-wide divisive character in the economy, trade, military alliances, nuclear weapon proliferation agreements, pitching US state against state, encouraging racial disharmony, and on, and on, and on.
His only remaining option is to now incite civil unrest, and hope that the impossible happens.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Gaaark on Sunday January 10 2021, @04:19PM
Why is it that when a Republican won, the votes we're fair and square, but when a Democrat won it was stolen?
You people just can't think straight and your bias and low education is showing: Trump lost and Trump is not as stable as he once was (which is not saying much at all). He lost and he has blown all credibility he once might have had.
Trump is a loser but unlike Hitler, he doesn't have the balls to kill himself.
Get outside once in a while and look at reality.
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