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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by colmvp on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:51PM (#25665567)
Yes, you're more accurate. If he won re-election, Twitter would've likely bent the rules around his behavior.
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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by paganel on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:37AM (#25668704)
This is very slippery-slopy, the next Trump will know to take definitive actions against corporate entities like Twitter from earlier on.
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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by mcguire on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:53AM (#25668816)
Why do you think they are attacking Section 230?
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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by colejohnson66 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @05:43AM (#25669540)
Doesn’t Section 230 actually protect them? Without it, they’d have no “safe harbor” protections against his account and would be forced to proactively remove stuff and would overmoderate to avoid lawsuits.
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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by mcguire on Thursday January 07, 2021 @04:09PM (#25677502)
As OniBait says, I think (I've given up trying to figure out the details of what they're doing) they are using the threat of removing 230 as a stick to stop social media companies from any moderation at all. Withou 230, the user-generated-content business model is untenable.
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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by OniBait on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:55AM (#25672430)
I think it is more that they see selectively removing content as equivalent to moderation and thus they shouldn't have safe harbor. So maybe they want them to only remove illegal content or something?
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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by antris on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:04AM (#25669670)
Fascists want to use laws against their detractors whenever possible, but also want none of the law apply to them.

The USA could be a dictatorship if Trump were just slightly smarter.

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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by pvfffghhr on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:31AM (#25668260)
What exactly do they accuse him of?

Edit: nobody has an answer? It seems a very important question. Like if you say “spreading fake news”, you are saying Twitter should act as an authority of truth. Since they can’t possibly be that, where does that leave us?

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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by devwastaken on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:46AM (#25668776)
You're not legitimately looking for an answer, therefore few are going to spend the time on it. Your questions are answered by honest research and taking the time to argue against yourself before doing it to other people.
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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by ricc on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:00AM (#25668487)
I don’t know why you’re in HN if you can’t use a search engine... but one of his violations is inciting violence.
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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by bra-ket on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:35AM (#25668689)
that's not true though, he explicitly said:

"I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!"

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13469127807005777...

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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by mattnewton on Thursday January 07, 2021 @11:44AM (#25673329)
You’ll notice that tweet was _not_ taken down, but tweets that told the protestors they were special people and something needed to be done about the stolen election were taken down.
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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by nindalf on Thursday January 07, 2021 @04:09AM (#25668915)
You’re arguing in bad faith.

It is a fact that that this election is over, and Biden won fair and square. 60 losses in State and Federal courts proves that. And yet Trump continues to incite his supporters by spreading falsehoods - the election was stolen, the other side committed fraud, patriots need to #stopthesteal and so on. Even yesterday he promised never to concede.

But sure, selectively look at the text where says “remain peaceful”. What a joke people like you are.

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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by sneak on Thursday January 07, 2021 @04:25AM (#25669031)
Claiming that false things are true is not inciting violence.
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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by andy_ppp on Thursday January 07, 2021 @05:22AM (#25669411)
It can incite violence, would these people have stormed the capital building if he’d said “fair enough guys, Joe got more votes than me, I lost”.
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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by La1n on Thursday January 07, 2021 @05:59AM (#25669639)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/capitol-mob-t...

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>Be There. Will Be Wild!

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a supporter misspelled the word “cavalry” in tweeting that “The calvary is coming, Mr. President!”

Mr. Trump responded: “A great honor!”

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But first came the remarks of the President, delivered on the Ellipse, just south of the White House.

“We will never give up,” he said. “We will never concede. It will never happen. You don’t concede when there’s death involved. Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore.”

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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by Technically on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:58AM (#25668472)
violating their terms of service, presumably.

However, it's a private site & they don't need to justify their giving service or not.

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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by emteycz on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:19AM (#25668592)
Twitter is a company providing free service, and they have the right to prevent anyone from using it at their discretion without any explanation whatsoever. Twitter can explain their position but it can be completely wrong, and an explanation definitely does not make them any authority of any kind, and doesn't mean anything about other cases.
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