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Re:Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for v... by shripadk on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:32PM (#25696359)
A historic event for whom? The United States right? Social Media operates in 100+ countries. What happened in USA is historic for you maybe. Not for us. USA is not the World.

Regimes fall every now and then. Coup attempts happen all the time. I have never seen media or social media ban any Government account over it.

I guess Social Media has a different conscience for when regime change/coup-d'etat happens in say Iraq vs when it happens in USA.

What this has done is set a very bad precedent. The Big Tech is acting like Supranational Powers overriding what Elected Governments can and cannot do. Remember that the transfer of power hasn't completed yet. Trump is still the elected President of USA until 20th of January.

If Big Tech can do this to a sitting elected President, it can do it to anyone else. No Government in the World is safe from Big Tech censorship.

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Re:Twitter suspends Trump's campaign account TeamTrump for v... by getlawgdon on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:45PM (#25696536)
stop. so naive. trump has all kinds of media to use. in this case he was an irresponsible user and he was cut off, as happens all day long. just stop with the bloviation.
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