Twitter has decided that President Donald Trump’s racist tweets telling certain non-white congresswomen to “go back” to the “crime infested places from which they came” don’t violate the platform’s rules on abuse.
They’re just counting clicks and ad dollars… Despicable. Wonder if there’s anything he could post which would violate their standards…
There is a double standard on Twitter, and it favors Trump and his merry band of racists, aka Republicans.
I wonder if Twitter can highlight the negative. The lack of forceful pushback from almost all Republicans on this issue. Now that could prove useful.
#BanTrump
Twitter stands for nothing if they can’t stand up to this level of hateful rhetoric and racism, no matter who it comes from. No one that is that blatant with their racist rants should be exempt, including that moron in the White House.
Jack Dorsey considers Trump’s tweets to be news and part of a necessary conversation / evil.
“Additionally, Twitter recently unveiled a new flagging system where “abusive” tweets from high-profile politicians would be hidden by a notice informing users that the tweet they’re about to see violated the site’s terms of service”
He’ll go after that next…
I think that one particular subject will get him ‘binned’, but Dorsey would prolly consider that to fall under freedom of speech.
I presume you mean if he criticized Twitter…
Ah, now you’re just being silly. Like they weren’t being altruistic or something.
Looks like the only answer is for everyone with a conscience to just quit Twitter. And, Facebook.
Join TPM, and read a book.
By definition, anything a President says or does by virtue of the position is news. So Trump could figuratively “shoot someone on 5th Avenue”, and Twitter wouldn’t do a thing.
However, I think there is a certain level that Trump can sink to -has sunk to -that could reasonably allow for censorship on Twitter because it’s not necessarily “newsworthy” and is a privately owned enterprise allowed to make it’s own rules. And, after all, it’s not like he doesn’t have plenty of other outlets to get his message across. So I think Dorsey’s decision is based on profits and/or intimidation by Trump and the right wing.
Nope
Straight up advocating genocide should do the trick.
Notice what I said
Maybe video of Trump shooting someone on 5th Ave.
But, I’m not sure . . . .
I’m pretty confident he and his minions already have. I saw one (1) tweet of his flagged early on. After that, just more of the same content sans flag.
And I think I know the reason, expressed quite eloquently by Ray Davies in the tune I posted above.
Fun Fact: Both Ray and Dave’s last name, as well as their sisters’ and mom and dad’s and, well, the whole Davies clan is pronounced “Davis.”
I’m pretty sure they’d never ban him but it would be awesome if they did. What would he do with himself, work maybe, nope there’s nothing urgent there.
“A Twitter spokesperson told TPM on background that Trump wasn’t breaking Twitter’s rules when he attacked Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on the basis of their ethnicity over the weekend.”
If Twitter had been around in the 1930s…
They would’ve viewed Goebbels tweets advocating Kristallnacht as “of public interest”…
The Reichskanzler’s account praising concentration camps as “newsworthy”…
And tweets promting a Final Soultion as “part of a necessary conversation”.
Of that I have no doubt whatsoever.
Suffocate.