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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @07:43PM (1 child)
But since all challenges were summarily shot down, there's no way we'll ever know whether or not the Democrats really were better in mobilizing voters.
Fact is, hundreds of processes and people were activated and the result is that Biden has been officially recognized by congress as the president to assume office on Jan 20. It worked out for Biden, if the stars had aligned differently, it may have been Trump. I don't like the result, but the process ended constitutionally and it wasn't one man, state or court that forced it.
Civil war talk is crazy, imagine what you would lose! Our Republic has lived through similar crises before. What I wish for the future is that the politicians get scared into fostering active conciliation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @02:10PM
Wrong, the challenges were not summarily shut down. The judges listened to the lawyers and gave them a chance to present evidence. Some of the cases were thrown out after the lawyers did not present enough evidence to even have a trial.
All that said, the DNC didn't do much to motivate voters except in Veorgia, Stacy Abrams worked her butt off over there. What mostly drove voters was not Biden, Harris, or anyone else. It was Trump the Fascist. The US voted against fascism, and as we are now seeing the fascists are responding as they do with violence and lies.