Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump

Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by anandchat on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:27PM (#25692002)

Violate the terms, get banned. That's fair.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by st1x7 on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:28PM (#25692038)

> Who's next?

Anyone who violates Twitter's terms and conditions.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by Andrew_nenakhov on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:37PM (#25692288)

Which can be changed by Twitter at any time.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by st1x7 on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:38PM (#25692322)

Of course. It would be weird if a company wasn't able to change its own policy.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by GordonS on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:47PM (#25692547)

I don't think that a precedent has been set here - Trump's behaviour is unprecedented, and Twitter let him get away with a helluva lot before finally suspending him

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by arentyouspecial on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:38PM (#25692308)

Trumps free to go to parlor or some other right wing dumpster fire.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by im3w1l on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:49PM (#25692590)

But Apple just threatened to ban Parler. If you want to play this little charade at least try to keep up.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by arentyouspecial on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:18PM (#25693125)

What charade? I thought capitalists loved capitalism, oh except when your favorite fascist gets thrown off a stupid website.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by admiralspoo on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:46PM (#25692531)

https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir

Funny, that account isn't banned.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by xiaodai on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:28PM (#25692040)

Joe Biden. Yeah right.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by macinjosh on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:28PM (#25692031)

The rest of us are next.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by lumpenprole on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:37PM (#25692284)

First they came for the narcissistic sociopaths and I said nothing.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by esoterica on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:31PM (#25692112)

What precedent? That a private company can ban people from posting on their servers. Well, duh.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by busymom0 on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:34PM (#25692220)

So you don't support FDA, EPA, Net Neutrality etc?

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by esoterica on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:46PM (#25692525)

What does poisoning the rivers or feeding people contaminated food have to do with banning people from Posting on a private forum.

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