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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, @07:15AM (1 child)
Sounds to me like what you are describing is a communications director. You know, like what they (used to) do at the White House? The big elephant in the room, of course, is that the current yutz in the Oval office keeps stepping on his own messaging. The real solutions is to replace said yutz with someone else. Help is on the way on January 20.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @10:20AM
You're still not reading.
Private media outlets are still not required to carry the message of the communications director, for instance. The way that media in the U.S. is structured is such that in order to get your message out to the masses it almost needs to get filtered through private media (as explained before). That structure itself needs to change. Politicians should not be required to have their message filtered through private media to communicate with the masses. The masses should have free and unfiltered access to what the government has to say. The private media is free to use their private media platforms for commentary and journalism but the government itself should have a stronger media platform of its own.