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posted by requerdanos on Saturday January 09 2021, @01:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the twitter-and-facebook-and-twitch-and-snapchat-and... dept.

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

Pro-Trump Rioters Breached US Capitol; EC Confirms Biden; Trump "Responds"; Dems Win GA [Updates: 2]


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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday January 10 2021, @01:14AM (9 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday January 10 2021, @01:14AM (#1097731) Journal

    Just because a book has something good in it doesn't mean the whole thing is true. Yahweh, the Abrahamic God-figure, is insane and evil, and this despite the fact that the Torah, Bible, and Qur'an have a few good bits in them.

    That's like saying you should eat a plate of shit because there's a few corn kernels in it and corn is nutritious.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @03:15AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @03:15AM (#1097776)

    Where there is a famine of truth, I am content to pick out the kernels thereof from any source I can find, wash them in the cleansing waters of solemn reflection, spice them with the salt of eloquence and pepper of brevity, and roast them in the flames they draw when posted on S/N, that perchance none of us might die for lack of food for thought.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @05:13AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @05:13AM (#1097805)

      OK, Ari!

  • (Score: 2) by nostyle on Sunday January 10 2021, @02:47PM (6 children)

    by nostyle (11497) on Sunday January 10 2021, @02:47PM (#1097888) Journal

    ...is insane...

    No one of us has a flawless comprehension of the worlds created by God. This does not make Him wrong.

    That said, we would be less than human if we did not weigh the evidence we encounter, and attempt to sort things out. People will succeed to greater and lesser degrees.

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    Actually, I've seen "That Girl" [wikipedia.org]... And don't you be talkin' 'bout my mama!

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday January 10 2021, @11:41PM (5 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday January 10 2021, @11:41PM (#1098006) Journal

      I was wondering when you were going to break cover and stop pretending...

      Anyway, your problem with arguments along the lines of "none of us knows enough/is smart enough to judge this wrong" is that it's self-destructive: none of us knows enough/is smart enough to judge this *right* either, in that case. Global, nuclear epistemological skepticism cuts both ways :)

      However, we *do* know that in order to *be* God, a being must have certain properties. Yahweh does not have them, and the existence of anything BUT Yahweh is, as shown above, conclusive proof that this specific God-figure does not exist (and neither does any other God in a similar theistic mode). This is why my concept of God is not like Yahweh, e.g., it's not a single, conscious, decision-making being.

      ...and it's especially not one that obviously evolved from other ANE deities and has a perpetual pissing match with one of its own creations that actually turns out to have the moral high ground over it 9_9

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @03:46AM (4 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @03:46AM (#1098110)

        No, no,... it is a _heart_ thing.

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        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 12 2021, @10:10AM (3 children)

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday January 12 2021, @10:10AM (#1098806) Journal

          "It's a heart thing" means "Fuck you, I believe because I believe because I believe." By all means, chase your epistemological tail in an endless regress, but don't pretend that gets you anywhere. Fideism is not an argument and revelation is of necessity private.

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @03:58PM (2 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @03:58PM (#1098896)

            In my experience, there are things that the heart knows that the mind cannot fathom.

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            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @10:39PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @10:39PM (#1099127)

              Election fraud and Trump's awesomeness?

            • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 13 2021, @01:50AM

              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday January 13 2021, @01:50AM (#1099249) Journal

              Sorry, but emotions aren't knowledge. Leaving aside that the heart does not "know" things period, what you're saying here reduces down to "I feel very strongly about things that I can't prove, and refuse to do my epistemic duty because muh feeeeeeeeeeelz." Again, fideism and revelation are of necessity private, and cannot convince anyone outside the self.

              In case you're wondering, I'm not an atheist. For your purposes, I'm something much worse: someone who believes there is a God, *and has done the logical, philosophical, textual, and apologetic research to know it's not Yahweh.*

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