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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: 5, Informative) by Thexalon on Saturday January 09 2021, @03:34PM (1 child)
That might have been what Mussolini said he wanted, but it had absolutely nothing to do with what he did.
Benito Mussolini and his Blackshirts spent the early 1920's attacking labor union members in the street and breaking strikes on behalf of corporations and the state.
That is exactly backwards. Mussolini had formed the fascist party specifically to abandon the Marxist ideas of elimination of class in favor of "class collaboration".
Benito Mussolini and his party took power by threatening to attack the capitol city of Italy, and the king backing down rather than fighting for democracy (which he didn't have much use for anyways, being a king and all). Which meant Mussolini didn't want "universal suffrage", he wanted and ensured the exact opposite, namely no votes that really counted at all. When, early on in Mussolini's rule, a member of the legislature presented evidence of the fascist-run election results being fraudulent, that legislator was murdered by a group of fascists.
He did nothing of the kind.
He did the exact opposite, working to expand industry and create more military production, which he used to attack and take over Ethiopia. By the late 1930's, military industry spending was 10% of Italy's GDP, making Italy under Mussolini about 3 times more militarized than the current US military-industrial complex, and about half as militarized as modern-day North Korea.
So I'm going to call bullshit on your claims about what the Italian fascists stood for. And no, you aren't anything remotely resembling a combination of Socrates and Aristotle when you completely ignore a basic fact about politics, namely that political actions speak far louder than words.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @06:47PM
can you not read? he said they didn't execute according to their purported ideals. wtf is wrong with you?