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I think the big question here is our President's tweets…
by zellyn 9y ago
I think the big question here is our President's tweets…
- adamrezich 9y agoAnd the mass of replies that each of his tweets garners, most of which I would personally consider to be unilaterally "hateful", especially the ones that seem to always float to the top...
- dragonwriter 9y agoThey aren't affected by Twitter's existing rules, and presumably won't be by any new rules, unless they are changing not only the written rules but the unwritten rules controlling whether or not they apply the written rules.
- cisanti 9y agoWhat do you mean by that? Your president's idiotic tweets make Twitter millions, this is the only reason many people hear about Twitter...
- balls187 9y agoIt's why Twitter has allowed Trump's account to get away with clear rule violations.
- nailer 9y agoMy understanding is that the military and police, as representatives of an elected government, are legally allowed violence and should also be allowed to exist on Twitter.
- sulam 9y agoThere's not much evidence that Trump is making Twitter money. People are not joining Twitter to interact with Trump, or even to read his tweets.
- notatoad 9y agoThey have already responded to this, the rules are applied with some leeway to account for "newsworthiness". The president's tweets will not be taken down and his account won't be banned because of a blind application of the rules.
- Amezarak 9y agoIf Twitter starts censoring mainstream political speech by even the POTUS, I think that'd draw more attention than they want. Right now and in the future they can censor people that few people care about and probably have a much bigger impact without any outrage outside of niche communities.
- MBCook 9y agoWhere did they say they were censoring political speech? It’s perfectly possible to speak about politics without personal attacks or threats.
- chippy 9y agoI live in the UK, we do not have a President here.