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posted by requerdanos on Saturday January 09 2021, @01:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the twitter-and-facebook-and-twitch-and-snapchat-and... dept.

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

Pro-Trump Rioters Breached US Capitol; EC Confirms Biden; Trump "Responds"; Dems Win GA [Updates: 2]


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @04:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @04:43PM (#1097495)

    "Democracy" as you understand it was called "oligarchy" before the eighteenth century. "Democracy" for most of the history of mankind meant a (surprisingly repressive) form of government in which the people, assembled together, made all the decisions and passed laws. The majority rules without protections for minorities, including resident aliens (Athenian metics) or the wealthy (who are always a minority in any state). Officers of the democratic state (except ambassadors and generals) were chosen by random lot from lists of volunteers, the method of creating magistrates known as "sortition." "Election" characterized instead oligarchies, in which a small group of people (a senate or gerousia) made the decisions and laws. Names were changed in the eighteenth century, some time between the American revolution and the French one; note that "democracy" in its original sense, which the American founding fathers disdained, does not appear in the Constitution—it was regarded as a failure, not a viable model as oligarchy was.

    Totalitarianism is orthogonal to either concept of democracy and in fact compatible with both. In totalitarianism, the state becomes identified with society, replacing or co-opting all competing forms of authority such as religion, academia, science, fraternal organizations, etc. What the people want and what the state wants become the same thing. That's in no way incompatible with old-style direct democracy, where the majority rules absolutely, nor would it be incompatible with an oligarchy. Many people talk about totalitarianism without bothering to find out what it really means. I'd suggest reading Schmitt's Der Begriff des Politischen.

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