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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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @04:59AM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @04:59AM (#1097800)

    You're slowly grasping the culture of the Ds. It seems the most obvious thing, here, TV, newspeople, social media, politicians, Hollywood, etc., is their smug arrogance. They're great with language loaded with modifiers, but little substance. Ask them to quote or link to one of Trumps "lies" and you just get the extreme insults, downmods, flaming trolls. Look at the extreme violent rioting they've done for 9 months, and their "news" media won't show it. YouTube is full of people's videos of the rioting, looting, arson, theft, assault and battery, but liberal media: crickets. Crazy nut mob storms Congress, wanting to be heard, did not loot, burn, or destroy the huge number of things they could have, and it's being called "insurrection" by the mouthy left. Crazy Alzheimer's Pelosi said of the mob: "chose their Whiteness over Democracy." Nope, no racism on the left at all. Carry on, business as usual.

    We definitely need a 3rd party that can win.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @07:02AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @07:02AM (#1097819)

    is their smug arrogance.

    Oh, dear, the smug arrogance of people who know better. Someone once pointed out that University professors tended to be Democrats. Clear evidence of bias, no? And I replied, "amazing, isn't it, that the people with the most education and knowledge, are not Republicans?" Yes, amazing. So let me point out to you, you stupid, uneducated right-wing idiot person, that it is not arrogance. It is actual superiour knowledge. I can understand how, since you do not understand that what they understand, that it appears to be arrogance, when you assert that your stupidity is just as good as their actual understanding and knowledge, that you think it is arrogance, but it is not. You are actually stupid and an moron, much like the often posted Runaway1956. He is as dumb as a post, and so stupid he cannot even recognize when he is proven wrong. So please, my dear inerudite AC, defer to your superiours, for they are not faking. They actually do know more than you do. And you only embarrass yourself with taking umbrage at how stupid you are. May I suggest some classes at your local Community College?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @07:11AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @07:11AM (#1097821)

      Perhaps you could go to community college to improve on your "superiour" spelling.

      At today's university, if you don't have tenure, you must pretend to be a Democrat to not get canceled. Of course, universities /run/ on obtaining taxpayer's money from the government, having to obtain grant money to keep the research going could do a lot to steer someone to the Democrat side.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @02:11AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @02:11AM (#1098070)

        Hint: They are not pretending! If you be Republican at an institution of Higher Learning, you just make it clear you shouldn't be there, because of the Learning and shit. If you start spouting QAnon insanity, you are likely to have start taking advantage of the employer's mental health benefits. Republicans self-select themselves out of Universities, and tend be found in departments of sociopathy, like Business, or Law. Or Trump University.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @07:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @07:53AM (#1097824)

    Leaving newspeople out of this, since they just exist to publish their employers' viewpoint, the power constellation is about to majorly change. Both parties have seriously lost internal cohesion for at least 10 years now. The Democrats have done better because they were propped up by tech and media oligarchs, but the Great Satan Trump is stepping off the stage in a few days.

    What's going to happen once the figure of hate is gone?

  • (Score: 2) by crafoo on Monday January 11 2021, @12:03AM (1 child)

    by crafoo (6639) on Monday January 11 2021, @12:03AM (#1098024)

    If you had any experience with cults, their "culture" would be far less surprising and make far more sense.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @01:15AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @01:15AM (#1098048)

      Gaslight
      Obstruct
      Project

  • (Score: 2) by helel on Monday January 11 2021, @02:22AM (1 child)

    by helel (2949) on Monday January 11 2021, @02:22AM (#1098074)

    People call you stupid because you sound stupid. It's mean and they shouldn't do it but that's the truth.

    I mean lets break down your post here:

    Ask them to quote or link to one of Trumps "lies" and you just get the extreme insults, downmods, flaming trolls.

    Trumps lies are many and not hard to find. [washingtonpost.com] When Trump claims his policies are responsible for one million of the twenty six thousand hydrocarbon jobs in Pennsylvania or that he paid "millions and millions" in taxes when the number is actually $750 anyone who's even remotely numerate can tell he's lying. If you can't tell that those are lies then you are either lying yourself, are very stupid, or are very poorly educated. It may be mean but it sounds like the most common response is that people assume you are an honest individual.

    Look at the extreme violent rioting they've done for 9 months, and their "news" media won't show it. YouTube is full of people's videos of the rioting, looting, arson, theft, assault and battery, but liberal media: crickets.

    The "liberal media" covered the some [oregonlive.com] of the violence [opb.org] that occurred [twincities.com] at BLM protests [usatoday.com], if that's what you're referring to. I know for a fact that they didn't report on all the violence [usatoday.com] but there was so much of it it was impossible to cover everything. What I don't understand is how you think nine months of Republican violence is an indictment of "the Ds."

    Crazy nut mob storms Congress, wanting to be heard, did not loot, burn, or destroy the huge number of things they could have, and it's being called "insurrection" by the mouthy left.

    When a mob attacks the elected government with bombs [nypost.com], guns [politizoom.com], and plans [heavy.com] to kill their political opponents arguing about whether it "insurrection," "sedition," or "treason" is, again, either a sign that you are bing disingenuous or have difficulty understating what any of those words mean.

    Crazy Alzheimer's Pelosi said of the mob: "chose their Whiteness over Democracy."

    If Pelosi really does have Alzheimers that sounds like something people should know about. Do you have a link to a source for that claim?

    As for racism, I can't speak for other but I despise it from both the left and the right. I absolutely agree that the attempted coup [businessinsider.com.au] wasn't about "whiteness." It was about power, pure and simple, and this kind of casual racism or revers-racism or whatever you want to call it may play well with her base but doesn't help the situation at all.

    That said, Pelosi may be a little racist but she is not a literal nazi [dailydot.com], like (some of) the Trump supporters that were in the capitol building that day. Two wrongs don't make a right but given the choice between a nazi and an SJW I'll take the SJW every time.

    We definitely need a 3rd party that can win.

    The only way we get this is if we change our voting system. First past the post voting leader to a two party equilibrium. I favor instant runoff voting / ranked choice voting because it's easy to understand and implement as a drop-in replacement for first past the post and might have a slim chance of being attainable. Make sure to support any candidate or ballot measure that offers this change.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @07:42AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @07:42AM (#1098185)

      The only way we get this is if we change our voting system.

      No, what we really need is a viable third party alternative. The last best hope of this was Gary Johnson in 2016, but he rapidly imploded under the first bit of scrutiny. If you want me to vote for your alternative you better make sure that alternative really is substantially better that the Republicans and Democrats.