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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by gnulinux on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:37PM (#25692285)
I think the first tweet is a good argument. I personally think second tweet is not only a stretch it's the exact kind of tweet POTUS should have been using Twitter. He just says, in a normal manner, "I won't attend X" without SHOUTING or using weird adjectives like "nasty woman" or whatever.

I think it's important to understand that Twitter needs to be very conservative here. All social media banned Trump, and twitter really is the last place his voice can be heard (via a famous privately-owned social media organ). Well, if Trump tweets "I'm gonna nuke Iran" tomorrow they don't want to be the place Trump announces this.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:45PM (#25692505)
>twitter really is the last place his voice can be heard

He's the POTUS !!!! He can be on more or less every media outlet on the entire planet in a few seconds if he so chose.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by winston_smith on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:23PM (#25693223)
Not at all certain. Major outlets have cut him off on several occasions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/01/cnn-msnbc...
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:57PM (#25693869)
I knew someone would bring this up. YMMV but I do not believe that if Trump, as POTUS, called a press conference and did not say stuff that was demonstrably and immediately verifiable as untrue, no network would cut him off. Even today. Or tomorrow.
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by Zelphyr on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:42PM (#25692426)
Well, if Trump tweets "I'm gonna nuke Iran" tomorrow they don't want to be the place Trump announces this.

That is a far better argument for permanently suspending his account than what they cobbled together.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by gnulinux on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:45PM (#25692502)
This is a simple extrapolation of their argument:

> Due to the ongoing tensions in the United States, and an uptick in the global conversation in regards to the people who violently stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, these two Tweets must be read in the context of broader events in the country and the ways in which the President’s statements can be mobilized by different audiences, including to incite violence, as well as in the context of the pattern of behavior from this account in recent weeks.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by lenkite on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:04PM (#25694072)
Look at this record. Trump is the only President in the last 30 years that did not start a War or major military action.
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by thefucnjosh on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:08AM (#25697356)
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