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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, Informative) by helel on Saturday January 09 2021, @04:15PM (9 children)
Trump has been inciting violence against peaceful BLM protesters for months now, from calling the peaceful protesters "terrorists" to defending right wing terrorists such as Kyle Rittenhouse. All that time Twitter did nothing more than stick a "this tweet is factually untrue" link under his posts. When more right wing terrorists were caught planning to kidnap the Democrat governor of Michigan Trump defended their actions on Twitter and the platform allowed him to keep doing it.
Only now that Trump has gone so far as to send his violent followers after Republicans [mediaite.com] does Twitter see fit to do anything about Trumps calls for violence. Twitter and Facebook are not, and never have been, left leaning and if either platform had any interest in "censoring the right" they'd have banned Trump four or five years ago.
Republican Patriotism [youtube.com]
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @05:39PM (1 child)
Nice trolling
(Score: 1, Troll) by helel on Saturday January 09 2021, @06:25PM
If the facts of the situation don't align with your politics anyone who mentions them is a troll?
Republican Patriotism [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Monday January 11 2021, @12:15AM (6 children)
BLM is a terrorist organization. Pretty much the definition of one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @12:53AM
Naming your organization after a hashtag is very effective for dismissing criticism, especially when the media doesn't care. But where's the evidence that Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Black Lives Matter Foundation [buzzfeednews.com], or the Movement for Black Lives are terrorist organizations? I don't see any.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @01:59AM
Mmmm yesss, show everyone how insane you truly are!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @02:01AM (2 children)
Crafoo is a terrorist. Saw a pic of him storming the capital, with him wearing a shirt with a big Q on it, and the words "Truth the Plan". Turns out there weren't no plan, and he was pretty stupid for believing there was one, but he's still a right-wing nut-job racist terrorist!
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Monday January 11 2021, @07:29PM (1 child)
Now that's just mean. Qlarpers are all boomers worried about their SS checks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @02:01AM
Not in the videos I saw, very few boomers. If anyone is worried about their SS checks then they should have been paying attention and not voted for Trump. I know, they believed Trump's lies, so sad.
(Score: 2) by helel on Monday January 11 2021, @02:25AM
I don't suppose you could provide some proof of this claim?
Republican Patriotism [youtube.com]