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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @04:01PM (4 children)
Round here we call that 2nd Amendment rights. I.e. the right of all white people to overthrow the government because they created Western civilization.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @07:29PM
Maybe you should use your second amendment rights to form a militia to help defend the government against terrorist groups who just used violence to attempt to overthrow the democratically elected government because they didn't like the election results?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @09:21PM (2 children)
But, Jordan Peterson and Gavin McGinnis are both Canadians. Is this something about the Commonwealth, and the Queen, and the fact that Meghan Markle [pagesix.com] is black?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @01:15AM (1 child)
Don't forget Murdoch the Australia! Some groups that claim to hate foreign influence sure are heavily influenced by foreign actors!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @01:43AM
Are you suggesting the entire Trump presidency has been a plot by the British Empire to re-take the American Colonies? And Canada, Australia, South Africa, Fiji and Tonga, Burma, and Hong Kong are in on it? Makes sense, the last time the Capitol Building was sacked was by British Military Forces in the War of 1812! Trump supporters are back to finish the job? They are making Benedict Arnold look like an amateur! Ha!