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, Touché) by Tork on Saturday January 09 2021, @05:20PM (13 children)
You know damned good and well that if somebody here made a post that brought unwanted attention to SN you'd remove it, especially if investigators were sniffing around for federal offenses.
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @09:05PM
I suspect most of us have not read the "offending" Tweets that they chose to use as their basis for closing his account. The link [twitter.com] to their explanation is in the OP. Here they are:
Those two tweets were used as justification for banning the President of the United States. And now thousands of other individuals are being purged as well, with no explanation whatsoever, not even farce used to ban the President. I don't think people understand the magnitude of what's happening right now. I'm sure you know of the "First they came for the..." poem. I'm not going to be cliche and recite that. What is much more interesting is this [ucsb.edu] discussion with the author of that poem, Martin Niemöller. If you are unaware, he was a Lutheran Pastor for some context to his comments:
Big tech has been colluding to censor more and more of society, with each new offense being far less egregious than the one prior. This very overt entry into the realm of politics at the highest level is unprecedented, and disconcerting. In a normal country, if the president were being censored by corporations and media then government would act quickly to ensure they always have a voice. But in our country government and media/corporations are instead merging and colluding, and working to ostracize anybody who gets in their way.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 09 2021, @09:09PM (9 children)
We don't remove anything legal, no. We removed spam once and we'll still remove very ill considered comments at the user's request but we do not remove explicitly political speech of any stripe and never will.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday January 09 2021, @09:15PM (8 children)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @09:20PM (1 child)
Where did he do that?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @09:47PM
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 09 2021, @11:29PM (4 children)
No, we will not. Speech, like guns, does not kill people.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday January 10 2021, @12:14AM (1 child)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 10 2021, @10:16PM
Easy to say period. You have your priorities list and liberty is obviously not at the top like it is on mine.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @01:37AM (1 child)
Yeah, right! It is the bullets and the words that do the actual killing part! Good point, Buzzard!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 10 2021, @10:15PM
No, it's the people. At least until our AI-controlled robot overlords arrive.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @12:22AM
It's not less if you consider spam worse.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday January 10 2021, @01:07AM (1 child)
Like that set of Runaway's frothier rants I've been screenshotting and saving links to...?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @12:56PM
The level of obsession between you two is very creepy. I think if you stop stalking each other, it will improve your mental health.