Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
by SpicyLemonZest on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:24PM
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I agree with everything you're saying here, but it's just not related to the current situation. Twitter didn't ban Trump because they think it'll have a healing effect and resolve social divisions in American society; they banned him because they think he might incite his supporters to violently attack the inauguration ceremony on January 20th, as he incited them to attack Congress two days ago.
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
by syshum on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:37AM
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If that is the case why permanent ban? Why not 30 days...
I am also not a big fan of the "incitement" defense, it seems that is often a moving goal post depending the the political views of the person being accuses of incitement, it is also very subjective, I am not a fan of subjectivity in policy. Policy have to be objective.
To objective incitement, i.e a direct call to violence, should be ban-able, but subjective analysis on what "he really meant" or "how people took the words" is where I start to have problems