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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: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 09 2021, @04:23PM (7 children)
You might want to look again at the brown shirts again. A leading brown shirt was pretty openly challenging Hitler's control of the brown shirts. Right or wrong Hitler had to either establish his authority, or relinquish control of the brown shirts. A couple dozen brown shirts were executed, and the organization was absorbed into other Hitler controlled organizations.
You are generally correct, but the majority of brown shirts were "rehabilitated", and found new life in the Nazi machine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @06:43PM (6 children)
I'm honestly curious: don't you get tired of having to explain history to this bunch of morons, over and over and over again?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 09 2021, @07:16PM (5 children)
We can hope that one or two or maybe even three individuals learns something when asked to review history. The rest will ignore any such invitation.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @07:34PM
Well, I learned something today, so thank you.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @07:57PM (2 children)
These days you can get banned from reddit for explaining newton, carnot, einstein, etc didnt use any statistics.
Meanwhile the people calculating p values all day have failed to figure out any laws or cure anything like cancer, alzhiemers, or heart disease despite about 100,000,000x more funding.
No inconvenient facts allowed. A great stagnation is deepening..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @11:23PM (1 child)
Damn you're stupid, and people modding you up for that clearly insane bullshit?
Just shows how many morons hang around SN.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @01:49AM
What to expect of anyone who claims to have learned things from Runaway?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @11:31PM
We learned that you asshole conservatives truly are Nazis and all your whinging was bullshit distraction from that fact that you're traitorous fascist scum. Thankfully the entire country now clearly sees what you are.