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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @03:46AM (4 children)
No, no,... it is a _heart_ thing.
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"Wouldst thou that the mind should not entrap thee?"
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 12 2021, @10:10AM (3 children)
"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.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @03:58PM (2 children)
In my experience, there are things that the heart knows that the mind cannot fathom.
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What can a man do?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @10:39PM
Election fraud and Trump's awesomeness?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 13 2021, @01:50AM
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.*
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...