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Re:A calendar of upcoming changes to the Twitter Rules by shostack on Friday October 20, 2017 @06:52PM (#15519647)
The problem is with situations like where our President tweets gifs promoting violence against people and news organizations, or attempts to instigate nuclear war via Tweet. Trump is obviously a gold mine for Twitter right now from both a growth and ad revenue standpoint (not even getting into the bot side of things), so they have a very vested interest in looking the other way.

There's also a lot of dangerous precedent that could be set if they were to block the POTUS.

So do we just say "no violent speech unless you've somehow managed to get elected"?

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Re:A calendar of upcoming changes to the Twitter Rules by MBCook on Friday October 20, 2017 @09:08PM (#15520124)
> There's also a lot of dangerous precedent that could be set if they were to block the POTUS.

What would that be? If anything I’d think that would be a good thing that no one would be above the rules.

It’s not like he doesn’t have other communication methods.

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Re:A calendar of upcoming changes to the Twitter Rules by te_chris on Saturday October 21, 2017 @08:00AM (#15521592)
He could go and join Gab with all the other scum.
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Re:A calendar of upcoming changes to the Twitter Rules by nailer on Saturday October 21, 2017 @12:55AM (#15520745)
Would you support banning Obama for creating war with Assad, if he commented about it on Twitter?
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Re:A calendar of upcoming changes to the Twitter Rules by shostack on Saturday October 21, 2017 @02:17AM (#15520898)
I don't deal in hypotheticals. However I think there is a big distinction between tweeting about a war vs. actively trying to instigate one via Tweet.
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Re:A calendar of upcoming changes to the Twitter Rules by nailer on Saturday October 21, 2017 @05:01AM (#15521230)
Obama instigated war with Assad. If he was more active on Twitter he'd have done so via Twitter. It's not a huge stretch to imagine this.
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Re:A calendar of upcoming changes to the Twitter Rules by cdubzzz on Saturday October 21, 2017 @06:33AM (#15521391)
I’ll be more direct - yes. I would absolutely support banning any person, regardless of station, from the platform for violating its rules. Trump would still be the president without Twitter, we’re not talking about impeachment here.
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Re:A calendar of upcoming changes to the Twitter Rules by nailer on Sunday October 22, 2017 @05:09AM (#15525834)
Would you be happy to exclude police, military and government from Twitter as a result of this? We license them to use force on our behalves.
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Re:A calendar of upcoming changes to the Twitter Rules by cdubzzz on Sunday October 22, 2017 @08:39AM (#15526540)
I would absolutely support banning any person, regardless of station, from the platform for violating its rules.
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Re:A calendar of upcoming changes to the Twitter Rules by nailer on Sunday October 22, 2017 @12:43PM (#15527633)
And you're aware that includes all members of government, who are given a mandate for a monopoly on violence? Sorry this wasn't clear from your previous answer.
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Re:A calendar of upcoming changes to the Twitter Rules by j4kp07 on Saturday October 21, 2017 @02:01AM (#15520869)
> The problem is with situations like where our President tweets gifs promoting violence against people and news organizations, or attempts to instigate nuclear war via Tweet.

That is spectacular. Our current culture war is THE reason why the Left is losing.

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