gabeoz 7,915 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Twitter just pretty much implied they’ll ban him if he publicly continues to lie about the election and incite violence even if he doesn’t to it on the platform he’s ****ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUtterfield 8 41,818 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Just now, bionic said: inb4 "@NotDonaldTrump" appears, posting from within the White House They didn’t do that to the @potus account Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill 31,812 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 1 minute ago, urgirl said: yes. he doesn't have a constitutional right to a twitter acount. im just questioning if its twitter employees responsibility to decide what the POTUS can say or not (beyond basic twitter constrictions like no inciting violence or no hate speech). im really not concerned at all about this specific instance but about future president of social media censorship They have terms of service for a reason. Trump signed that contract when he created his Twitter account, and I'm sure there's some paragraph there that says something like Twitter reserving the right to remove any content they may deem "deletable" or something. It's the right of a private company. Former First Lady of the United States. Now card-carrying member of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabeoz 7,915 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Just now, gabeoz said: Twitter just pretty much implied they’ll ban him if he publicly continues to lie about the election and incite violence even if he doesn’t to it on the platform he’s ****ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill 31,812 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 2 minutes ago, BUtterfield 8 said: Haven’t they done this before? Yeah but this time they threatened to ban him if he keeps on doing it. Former First Lady of the United States. Now card-carrying member of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supersonic 49,376 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Just now, BUtterfield 8 said: They didn’t do that to the @potus account The potus account isn't necessarily linked to Donald, it's whoever is the president at the moment. And it would be nonsensical to lock the potus account only to unlock it in 13 days when Biden has control of it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bionic 50,111 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 1 minute ago, Jill said: They have terms of service for a reason. Trump signed that contract when he created his Twitter account, and I'm sure there's some paragraph there that says something like Twitter reserving the right to remove any content they may deem "deletable" or something. It's the right of a private company. Yep, at the end of the day its not a public service. Twitter is a private company– think of bakers who are 'allowed' to refuse to bake cakes for gay weddings or whatever the dispute there was. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bionic 50,111 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Just now, Supersonic said: The potus account isn't necessarily linked to Donald, it's whoever is the president at the moment. And it would be nonsensical to lock the potus account only to unlock it in 13 days when Biden has control of it. I don't think a Twitter ban or lock is a particularly difficult process to reverse. Probably just the click of a button Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill 31,812 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 1 minute ago, Supersonic said: The potus account isn't necessarily linked to Donald, it's whoever is the president at the moment. And it would be nonsensical to lock the potus account only to unlock it in 13 days when Biden has control of it. The tradition is that the personal account of the sitting president is deleted or locked and the president posts directly from the @POTUS account, but Trump is the first one to use his private account afaik. Not many presidents that had Twitter during their mandate tho. Former First Lady of the United States. Now card-carrying member of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill 31,812 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 1 minute ago, bionic said: I don't think a Twitter ban or lock is a particularly difficult process to reverse. Probably just the click of a button But the POTUS account is an account controlled by the government, not the individual. Former First Lady of the United States. Now card-carrying member of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill 31,812 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 2 minutes ago, bionic said: Yep, at the end of the day its not a public service. Twitter is a private company– think of bakers who are 'allowed' to refuse to bake cakes for gay weddings or whatever the dispute there was. Well not, I don't agree with that that is a conflict with anti-discrimination laws, therefore it's not a valid power that a private business can have. Former First Lady of the United States. Now card-carrying member of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarstruckIllusion 53,565 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 5 minutes ago, urgirl said: yes. he doesn't have a constitutional right to a twitter acount. im just questioning if its twitter employees responsibility to decide what the POTUS can say or not (beyond basic twitter constrictions like no inciting violence or no hate speech). im really not concerned at all about this specific instance but about future precident of social media censorship Social media censorship? If I did half the **** he did, I’d be suspended and probably in jail right now. We all consented to follow the same guidelines, and the rules have been bent for him, exclusively because he’s the president. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supersonic 49,376 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Anyway, this was a funny tweet Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill 31,812 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 2 minutes ago, StarstruckIllusion said: Social media censorship? If I did half the **** he did, I’d be suspended and probably in jail right now. We all consented to follow the same guidelines, and the rules have been bent for him, exclusively because he’s the president. Wasn't there an account someone created that just reposted everything Trump posted, and that was banned like two hours after it was created Former First Lady of the United States. Now card-carrying member of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bionic 50,111 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Just now, Supersonic said: Anyway, this was a funny tweet me irl like Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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