Twitter 'deeply sorry' about Trump's tweets, but won't remove them

Re:Twitter 'deeply sorry' about Trump's tweets, but won't re... by downerending on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @05:47PM (#23316818)

Indeed, regardless of how you feel about any President, do you really want evidence of what they're saying and doing hidden away? I'd guess that if he himself decided to move to a private list that the same people crying for censorship would be crying about that.

This simply isn't Twitter's bag of crap to deal with.

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Re:Twitter 'deeply sorry' about Trump's tweets, but won't re... by krapp on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @07:12PM (#23317536)

>I'd guess that if he himself decided to move to a private list that the same people crying for censorship would be crying about that.

He can't. The courts have already decided that because his personal Twitter account is a de facto official channel for White House communication, it has to be public and it has to be preserved. It's why he can't even block people anymore.

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Re:Twitter 'deeply sorry' about Trump's tweets, but won't re... by ithkuil on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:55PM (#23317426)

What if Twitter keeps the president's tweets put a banner "this content violates the policies <insert what and why etc>, we don't condone this .... but for the interest of the public discourse we decided to keep this online etc etc"?

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Re:Twitter 'deeply sorry' about Trump's tweets, but won't re... by anigbrowl on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @08:33PM (#23318164)

To my surprise they have just done this with a pair of his tweets about mail-in ballots (adding a 'get the facts about this topic' button to each tweet) and as you might expect he's throwing a fit.

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Re:Twitter 'deeply sorry' about Trump's tweets, but won't re... by downerending on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:59PM (#23317448)

They certainly can, but they're needlessly buying into trouble. And, if it matters, probably bumping up Trump's fall vote totals.

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