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Twitter Permanently Suspends Trump's Account

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

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:

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: 2) by Tork on Saturday January 09 2021, @09:34PM (2 children)

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 09 2021, @09:34PM (#1097646)
    Heh one side-effect of Twitter is the whole 'mainstream media hates us!' rebuttal lost a lot of it's luster when any old schmo could do a quick search and say: "Damn, he really did use exactly those words." This last year has been especially hard on Trump-supporters trying to do damage control for their 'team'. If not for Trump's antics going directly onto the public record we probably wouldn't be enduring the "it was really BLM dressed like us!" phase of denial right now.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @11:04PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @11:04PM (#1097680)

    Which is why Runaway kept complaining that he wouldn't shut his mouth. Not that he disagreed with Trump, but that he didn't like their fascist agenda being broadcast so clearly. Hard to recruit young people when Dear Leader is spouting off their racist grandpa.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @05:21AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @05:21AM (#1098131)

      They want dog whistles, not megaphones.