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