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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: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @03:12PM (8 children)
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
– Michael Crichton (1942-2008)
Anyone ever involved in something interesting knows the news is incapable of accurate reporting. Most know the news is a bunch of bs by the time they are 25 or so.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @03:21PM (4 children)
That's why I only read Parler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @03:26PM (2 children)
I don't know if you're trying to be sarcastic, but in an earlier age informing yourself from multiple sources used to be a good thing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @03:37PM
That's why I only read tea leaves. Moar sauce.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @08:52PM
These days reading multiple sources will just move you up higher on the list of those to be liquidated. You will not think, comrade, you will obey.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @04:10PM
I only believe what I read in the parlor. The fake news is reserved for the kitchen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @04:54PM (2 children)
I read a novel thirty years ago that mentioned "Everything in the paper was bullshit, except for the sports page".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @05:13PM (1 child)
> "Everything in the paper was bullshit, except for the sports page".
I was in the sports pages once, as a kid. They got every detail wrong.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @07:02PM
I think you mean the Comics.