I mean it’s also an irony that people complain about totalitarianism 🤔 and don’t realize this is an act of such being displayed by a company to silence freedom of speech.. 🤔
The reason why I consider it frightening is the whole pen is mightier than the sword scenario.. 🤔 if they can silence a ruler of a powerful nation it’s a flex in their part.. that also leads to the ability to silence all voices in a way.. governing independent thought with what u can or can’t say..
🤔 to me it’s not the proper form of repercussion... but, it is also their site.. 🤔 I just question motives and intentions behind it......
I know it's the right thing to do, with him specifically. I hate the thought of us starting to censor people though. I [b]do not[/b] want to lose our freedom of speech.
@bookerdana This is very true. I feel like some folks are waiting for any sign, so they can act out their video game fantasies. This is the very thing that makes me nervous. I tend to be hopeful though, I don't think we will to back to status quo. Change is eminent.
Thats Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. I think SW should take a close look at any new account applications here. Not even African and South American dictators have managed this. Trump is probably having a seizure and ordering Nuke strikes on silicone valley as we speak..😷
@SW-User Honestly, he should never really have been on Twitter. His earliest advisers asked him not to, for security reasons—which he, of course, ignored.
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@bijouxbroussard I've been claiming for years that Russia has been writing his tweets. Most of his inflammatory early-morning tweets come at noon Russia time.
Too little - too late. Social media has, and still is, contributing to the creation of alternate realities that, clearly, will lead to violence. Their 'freedom of speech' argument has always been bullshit. Money. It's about money. But now that they have blood on their hands they need wake up to how their services are really used. And not just in the United States.
@Ynotisay true. People blame them for violence using their platform to gather etc. when at the heart of the matter violence (or the potential for it) is in everyone. only an individual can choose who or what to be in any given moment.
@LvChris It's sort of like the rats jumping ship over the last couple of days in protest despite the fact they'd be out of jobs in two weeks anyway. It means nothing.
@Carla Some should remind them that if they successfully make Twitter reinstate the account, then every "good Christian" bakery will be forced to destroy the "sanctity of marriage" when they're made to bake cakes for LGBTQ* weddings.
Or, maybe we don't explain it and save that barrel of laughs for later? Sort of like a Strategic Satire Reserve.
It makes sense. Anyone who thinks this might impede their freedom of speech perhaps should reconsider what they are putting on the internet? No one is allowed to scream FIRE in a public area and no one should inciting violence on the internet. PERIOD
Laws will need to be enacted to protect everyone online ... like laws protect us on the streets. People need to come to terms with this.
@peskyone Totally agree. And I think that needs to extend to the way AI contributes. We're still in the infancy of the internet and, clearly, we don't as a society have the maturity to handle the current Wild West perspective. Let's hope this bring some real change.
@Ynotisay You are absolutely correct and cannot be said enough. People are getting too comfortable with less rules and guidelines - they actually think it is a right not a privilege.
@bijouxbroussard I was just watching Reid Out and Joy had someone on who was saying that it was the Twitter employees coming together and saying they are not comfortable working there with Trump on their platform.
Should've been done a long time ago. I guess now that Trump's term is ending, it's time to start taking him seriously? Why were we still acting like he was just a joke all this time? The thing that bothers me most about what happened on Wednesday is that everyone saw it coming and it still couldn't be prevented.
He has to be going nuts. Um..nutsier. I knew this was bound to happen. Just thought they'd wait until he was gone. I guess for all intents and purposes, he is.
Jack Dorsey is still a Nazi apologist at the LEAST. Twitter Safety still banned users who reported literal Nazis on the system and minorities who were reporting harassment.
Banning someone who made a mockery of the TOS as a point to brag about with less than two weeks before he is dragged out of my White House in shackles isn't going to earn Jack a cookie.
@daisymay so...back a million years ago, in trump years, we all were discussing how the germans short term memories were erased by aliens when questioned after WW11. Seems the aliens have returned. Twitter, facebook...they've milked those accounts for all they were worth. The brave brave senators?🙄give a fucking break.
I'm not against it, but I think it's mostly done for publicity. Plus, there are still a lot of people on Twitter who do violate their guidelines but they're still allowed on there because they have the right politics. I'm sure they're going to come under fire for that eventually. I won't be surprised if they cave in and let Trump back on because of it.
Democrats claim to be the party of tolerance, but they have proven themselves intolerant of anyone who disagrees with them. Exhibits A and B: Trump and many other prominent conservatives being banned from social media and the war against Parler, whose only "crime" was/is providing a platform for Conservative pro-American Constitution voices to be heard.
@StrictSouthernHOH It is abundantly obvious that big tech wants conservative voices silenced since big tech and the Democrat party are deeply embedded with their CCP masters. It’s been verified that Facebook was used as one of the communication platforms by those who perpetrated the Capitol protests. But (of course) Apple and Google didn’t pull Facebook from their platforms because Facebook also kisses the almighty liberal butt.
[quote]Twitter specifically raised the possibility that Trump’s recent tweets could mobilize his supporters to commit acts of violence around President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, an analysis that experts saw as a major expansion in the company’s approach to moderating harmful content online. Its action meant Trump’s tweets disappeared from the site, removing the catalogue of his thoughts except for those preserved by researchers and other documentarians.[/quote]
@MalteseFalconPunch Yes. That’s exactly how narcissistic and selfish he [b]really[/b] is. And how little he cares about the people in this country. And yet some people [b]still[/b] haven’t figured that out.
