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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @03:01AM (2 children)
"The mechanism at work is that the readers pay for the newspaper"
Newspapers make, or at least have traditionally made, most of their money through advertising. What they charge isn't meant to cover their costs (or really even come close), it's meant to deter people who aren't really interested in reading them from getting them (ie: using them for other purposes).
If you like newspapers that's fine. It's your prerogative. You have absolutely zero right to use the government to try to take away or limit my alternative options so as to force them down my throat. I don't want newspapers. I see them as self interested private companies. They aren't interested in the public interest. They are interested in their own private interest. I'm not interested.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @03:12AM (1 child)
(Same poster)
To be clear I am (borderline) pirate partisan. So if there is a newspaper that releases its content under a creative commons license and substantially covers intellectual property law so as to mostly criticize it (at least to criticize the intellectual property extremism that currently exists and call for more reasonable law) I might consider subscribing to such a newspaper.
I have contributed money to Techdirt, Soylentnews, and Wikipedia. I'm willing to put my money where I believe it should go.
As far as I can tell there is a conflict of interest between the interests of private newspapers and the public interest (ie: in the case of intellectual property) and most newspapers will put their own private interests ahead of the public interest. This is true for the mainstream media as well. I see this as dishonest and despicable. A newspaper that either doesn't cover intellectual property issues because doing so conflicts with their private interests or one that supports intellectual property extremism because that's what's in their private interest is dishonest. I would say most newspapers are, by and large, dishonest. They don't deserve my attention. Why should let a self serving private entity be the source of my information and opinions?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @03:16AM
Why should I let a self serving private entity be the source of my information and opinions? *