Twitter is between a rock and a hard place with Jones. If they ban Jones, they pretty much have to ban the Twittler in Chief. Tell me how the two users are different. You can’t. They haven’t banned or disciplined Twittler, so they really can’t say or do anything about Jones.
I think there’s enough of a distance, however slight, between Dotard and Jones, for Twitter to ban Jones
Twitter is much too valuable in documenting Dotard’s crimes and obstruction.
Don’t they have an explicit exception for heads of state?
However, upon closer inspection …
… one learns pretty quickly never to expect moral behavior from corporations. It’s not why they exist.
Which was written 7 November 2016 (I don’t actually know, just guessing)? What other head of State is allowed to get away with this nonsense?
Vile language is their revenue stream. Now that is banned from other platforms, wait for Twitter profits to skyrocket.
True enough, but, man, when Facebook is morally superior to your company , you’ve really lost the thread.
They added one in when people on twitter tried to get Trump banned for violating Twitter rules.
Not quite but, yeah. 
They added an exception for Trump after people kept reporting his tweets and tried to get him banned from Twitter because he violated ALL the rules.
I’m done with Twitter. Just deleted my account.
No problem, Raison d’Etat:, Jones out, Trump in…
GBS would approve!
Cowards
So you and I agree - the rule was written for him - I just may be off in the timing, but Twitter has very little to fall back on with this. Twitler is an absolute violation and they let him get away with it, which shows me that Twitter is more concerned with revenue than they are with standards.
It’s why I’ll never have a Twitter account.
Facebook may look morally superior here, but it’s a momentary illusion!
There is only one type of users on Twitter: advertisers. Everybody else login in is a product whose only value lies in the demographics they represents and/or brings in. And, as the past couple years demonstrated, the demographic Alex Jones is tied to is both very large, quite stupid and easily manipulated, which makes it valuable to the actual Twitter users. For Twitter to throw it out would require it to be toxic to Twitter’s business model, which it simply isn’t, at least not yet.
And Twitter can’t even get the illusion right!
If I ran the Bot Farm…
The rumor would spread that the US Gov forced Twitter to keep Jones on, because the most effective way of maintaining a list of enemies of the government was to see who follows the Jones feed.
When I first read Dorsey’s explanation (justifications?) I thought ‘okay maybe’ but it took about 37 seconds to realise it was simply bullshit.
Then I realised I was reading that this all came from his interview with Hannity, an interview that had been scheduled for weeks!
Seems as if he and Zuckerberg fairly recently are playing to an element that should make many quite uncomfortable.