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Just act on the abuse reports and delete his account for real and do the world a favor.
by jackmott 9y ago
Just act on the abuse reports and delete his account for real and do the world a favor.
- PKop 9y agoPeople like you are why he got elected.
- sctb 9y agoCould you please not feed the trolls?
- ceejayoz 9y agoYou're getting downvoted, but Twitter has stated that "newsworthiness" can cause a tweet to be exempted from their rules. https://twitter.com/Policy/status/912438362010783744 https://twitter.com/Policy/status/912438362010783744
- cyberferret 9y agoIronic counterpoint: I now notice that the deactivation itself is 'newsworthy' and has been picked up by Reuters et al. Does this mean that this particular employee is now exempt from sacking or other disciplinary measures because what he/she did was 'newsworthy'? What a tangled (inter)web we have weaved...
- skrowl 9y agoCensorship of political rivals never does anyone a favor. How would you feel if people had said this same thing about Obama? Isn't it enough that over 90% of the mainstream (old) media coverage of Trump is negative for you? Do you REALLY need to ban him on Twitter?
- panic 9y agoObama wasn't setting policy or doing "diplomacy" on Twitter. If he were, I'd say the same thing. People asking for Twitter to ban Trump aren't all doing it because of their political "side" -- his use of the platform is harmful on its own.
- TheAdamAndChe 9y agoMany people are fine with banning Nazi sympathizers, posters of ISIS propaganda, and many were fine with the banning of Milo Yiannopoulos. Those prove that banning of political rivals is fine on Twitter. It's just a matter of where they draw the line, and whether or not they're willing to face the consequences of doing so.
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