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?
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Also at Ars Technica, CNET
Full Twitter explanation at: blog.twitter.com
(Score: 2) by helel on Monday January 11 2021, @02:22AM (1 child)
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:
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.
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."
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.
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.
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
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.