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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 Sunday January 10 2021, @12:57AM (20 children)
One of the most interesting statistics is one that is really hard to find. What was the change in vote totals from 2016 that gave the victory to Biden?
As far as I can tell, Trump polled about the same/slightly more across all counties. Some random changes due to natural population drift, but reasonable looking variation.
Compare Biden's totals to Clinton's and he got roughly the same in most counties, but with occasional massive increases in specific places. I find those increases especially suspicious, because in those counties the Trump vote didn't go down. It wasn't because voters switched sides, suddenly there were extra votes.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday January 10 2021, @01:29AM (16 children)
Do you think the massive "get out the vote" campaigns had anything to do with it? More people voting = more votes, huge surprise.
The GOP has a problem, which can be succinctly if a bit glibly summed up as "market saturation." They have a solid base but it's not growing all that much. Republicans vote more than Democrats do, not least because plenty of Democrats are poor and disenfranchised (and not helped by the Post Office fuckery and deliberate removal of polling places in Dem-heavy counties!). So the GOP can't really get too many more votes that it has, while the Dems have room to grow, as it were.
Besides which, the GOP has now torn itself in half. The much-vaunted Republican "unity" is a polite way of saying "fanaticism." The problem with this unity is that when ideological differences inevitably split the base, you end up with *two* sets of frothing fanatics who can't be reasoned with--and they are opposed to one another. Trump's camp and the "we love Mammon just a little more than White Surfer Jesus and Fat Orange Jesus" camp are going to tear each other to shreds.
Personally I can't wait. May they all rip each other to pieces and give Satan 70+ million reconstructive surgery jobs to do in Hell.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @02:09AM (5 children)
> Do you think the massive "get out the vote" campaigns had anything to do with it?
As opposed to mail in ballots, ballot harvesting, ballot "healing" and lax signature validation? Most countries prohibit practices like these because they facilitate fraud. Biden's "win" was due to highly localized anomalies - all but one of the bellwether counties favored Trump and by an average of 16 points.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @04:38AM (4 children)
Still no evidence for your allegations huh? Poor saps, they honestly believe what Trump says. Facepalm.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @05:15AM
Stupid is, as stupid does, or some kind of Forrest Gump folk wisdom. Or, perhaps, they are just stupid. Trump is a PT Barnum? Yankee grifter? And they fell for it, hard.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @01:42PM (2 children)
Every point made in the comment you replied to is true.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @02:07PM
Drop a link then.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @02:38PM
Then present some kind of evidence for once! Please let it be better than some paper in a ditch that isn't even opened to show the valid ballots being dumped. So far all we've seen is smoke and mirrors, and some drunk chick ranting at a judge in the most cringey display of Rudy's bad choices.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @04:05PM
You might want to rethink your "market saturation" hypothesis. In 2016, when there were no irregularities, Trump gained more votes than any republican president ever. And this year he gained more votes than any president ever.
The one and only issue he ran into was Biden suddenly pulling tens of thousands of votes out of nowhere exactly when it mattered to give him the bare minimum necessary to edge him out in all of the battleground states, which he was losing. At one point during the middle of the election Vegas was giving Trump 4:1 odds as the favorite. I knew it would have been a great time to toss a couple thousand down on Biden just because the odds of 'magic votes' appearing was certainly much better than 4:1. Too bad. Could've made a ton. :D
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @03:07AM (8 children)
No surprise there were more people voting, but it is about the patterns. Trump's votes increased slightly across the board. Biden's votes (over Hilary) had massive localized increases.
A typical county pattern:
Now add a fifth column (R-D)2016 - (R-D)2020
That second row is suspicious.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 12 2021, @10:03AM (7 children)
Again...lots of "get out the vote" campaigns, and we have black women to thank for saving us from another 4 years of this shit. I hope like hell that at some point in the near future our history books will put in more than just a few token references to Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 12 2021, @02:54PM (5 children)
They gotta do historically important things first and they just haven't much. Unless you care more about skin color than what's actually historically relevant. Which would make you a racist fuckwad.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @10:43PM (1 child)
What part of saving the country from a dictator is not historically relevant?
Oh right, you're one of the moronic traitors that doesn't give two shits about your own ideals when they inconvenience you. Get fucked you moldy dimwit.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday January 13 2021, @05:10PM
Which dictator would that be and which black woman did it?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 13 2021, @02:02AM (2 children)
What the AC said. You're a disingenuous shit-stirring troll and nothing you say should be taken any more seriously than an unwelcome puff of methane in a hotel elevator.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday January 13 2021, @05:11PM (1 child)
Point me out lots of black women that did something historically relevant or shut your very angry pie-hole.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 13 2021, @11:30PM
Ooooh, you *really* do not like that one, do you? :) Good ol' misogynoir! The information is there for you to find. But I know you're not going to, because it's fundamental to your worldview that all black women are stupid, lazy, overweight slobs who steeeeeal your tax moneeeeeeyz for welfare and drive cadillacs and buy $1000 flagship phones with it while the innocent hu-white man does an honest day's work for an honest day's pay, right? :)
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @01:14AM
Which were massively successful in a few counties and had almost no effect on the rest? It's not that the total was so obviously wrong, as the distribution of extra votes. They are concentrated in just a few locations.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2021, @02:11AM
Yeah cause like we always have 100% turnout....
Why are you wasting your breath? Shouldn't you be cleaning your guns and doing some last minute wargames?
Part of me says that maybe I should go take a backpacking trip up north, just in case the USA falls.
The other part of me tells me that you people are so disconnected from reality, you are so incapable of seizing political power, that maybe I should just get a bunch of weed and enjoy the fireworks from my balcony.
You know I feel like betting. What's the chances you'll command any artillery or air support? Are you dipshits capable and crazy enough to launch nukes? That sort of thing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @02:05AM (1 child)
Let me guess, you cain't "tell" very far. Bet I could throw your ass further. You are lying, to cover the fact that you are stupid. And paranoid. We are out to get you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2021, @02:21AM
It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you.