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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 Saturday January 09 2021, @06:02PM (7 children)
I knew it. The fuckers are gonna boogaloo, and they have some high-level support. They're gonna fuckin' boogaloo, and you ain't seen nothing yet. ICFI/Socialist Equality Party: Details emerge of high-level state involvement in Wednesday’s coup attempt [wsws.org]
And the Democratic Party cannot help us. Biden defends Republican Party coup conspirators [wsws.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @06:34PM (6 children)
Meanwhile here in reality, Nancy "People will do what they do" Pelosi is the coup plotter. [realclearpolitics.com] Even Vox said she is a threat to national security. [therightscoop.com]
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @06:38PM
You boys think you can succeed where Robert E. Lee failed? You're not half the man he was.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by helel on Saturday January 09 2021, @07:11PM (4 children)
If you're making claims about what VOX said, why don't you link to their article [vox.com]? Oh, that's right, because you're lying about what VOX said!
And since when are introducing articles of impeachment a coup? Did the Republican congress critters who impeached Bill Clinton commit a coup?
Besides which, she introduced those articles before Trumps attempted coup because she was worried he might try to overthrow the government. Turns out she was right [businessinsider.com.au].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @07:21PM (3 children)
>> you're lying about what VOX said!
> "She’s playing a dangerous game with America’s national security."
Where is the lie?
> she introduced those articles before Trumps attempted coup
What "coup"?
(Score: 2) by helel on Saturday January 09 2021, @08:28PM (2 children)
VOX categorically did not call Pelosi "threat to national security." You stated that they did. That is a lie. But then you've clearly read the VOX article so you know as well as I do that you're lying so what more is there to say about it.
The one in which he told his supporters "After this, we’re going to walk down — I’ll be with you — we’re going to walk down to the Capitol ... demand that Congress do the right thing [news.com.au]" and then they stormed the capitol building with bombs [nypost.com], zip cuffs, and guns [politizoom.com].
And why did they get into the building at all? Because Capitol [independent.co.uk] Police [thegrio.com] allowed them in and slowed the DC National Guard's [adn.com] response by hours.
Just because the execution was laughable doesn't for a second reduce the seriousness of what Trump attempted this week.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2021, @08:52PM (1 child)
> VOX categorically did not call Pelosi "threat to national security." You stated that they did. That is a lie.
Oh, it's the phrasing where someone playing a dangerous game with national security is somehow not a threat to national security? I was not quoting them literally and the linguistic equivalence is valid - making you the liar.
> The one in which he told his supporters
The one in which he told his supporters one thing and a bunch of lunatics did something else? Are charges of violent entry and disorderly conduct what you would expect for people involved in an actual coup? Oh, you're lying again!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @12:37AM
For a bunch of incompetent coup plotters, yes.