Note that Erdogan, an actual dictator, with military offensives on record (Syria, Karabash, Libya) and war-like operations (radar illumination against French warship, violations of Greece territorial waters) is not restricted at all on Twitter while the only US president in recent times that didn’t send troops abroad or start a new war is censored. It clearly shows that it’s not dangerousity of speech or personality that is censored.
Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign
by abiogenesis on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:38AM
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The difference is Erdogan's Twitter account is simply used for press releases. He does not personally post messages that violate their community standards. Regardless of what he does or says elsewhere, it's harder for Twitter to justify closing his account.
Why shouldn't it be?
For 4 years they said "we won't suspend a sitting president because we recognize our role in society but once Trump's not sitting he's fair game for bans"
I mean POTUS threatened nuclear war on their _social media platform_ and they let it go...
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It's quite simple, allowing sitting POTUS special privileges was a means to avoid limiting the reach of the American leadership to its people.
Well now Trump's a lame duck, and he was abusing the sitting president loophole to turn social media into a lightning rod for groups like the one that stormed the Capitol...
The math must have been very simple for them: give him 12? more days of increasing unhinged antics when he's already supposed to have started transitioning power... or don't.
tl;dr: It's no conspiracy that he was deplatformed right before the end of his term, the combination of the Capitol attack being triggered by him and the fact he was already on his way out was all it took.
You ascribe the timing part to greed, but it's even more easily easily ascribed to not wanting to censor the POTUS if possible while they're in power...
Donald Trump didn't suddenly become less profitable to Twitter after the Capitol attack, if anything he would have been more profitable. Note his "usual" account isn't even the POTUS handle, so it wouldn't have been affected by Biden's take over.