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Since we're on the topic, I'd like to point out that DT routinely breaks Twitters TOS with respect to abusive behavior [0] but twitter won't kill the goose that
by alistproducer2 9y ago
Since we're on the topic, I'd like to point out that DT routinely breaks Twitters TOS with respect to abusive behavior [0] but twitter won't kill the goose that lays the golden publicity eggs. Now we find out that they were trying to sell massive amounts of ads to RT [1]. Remember kids, social media is not your friend.
[0]: https://support.twitter.com/articles/18311 https://support.twitter.com/articles/18311
[1]: https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/01/twitter-offered-russian-tv-outlet-15-percent-of-election-ads/ https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/01/twitter-offered-russian-...
- ng12 9y agoWow, Twitter is selectively enforcing it's rules? Shocking.
- ralusek 9y agoDo you think that they should ban his account? I'm personally pretty pleased that the most powerful person in the world has an open channel that clearly nobody is able to control (otherwise half of the shit he writes wouldn't be approved, clearly). Coalesced power is the greatest threat to those without it, and there is no greater than the executive branch of the US. As asinine as most of his posts are, I much prefer insight from my enemies than my friends.
- alistproducer2 9y agoI do actually. He's a troll - plain and simple. Make that ahole go to Gab where he belongs. Think about that for a second. The president of the USA is a twitter troll. You really can't make this stuff up.
- hota_mazi 9y agoI don't think he's a troll, at least not in the sense of the word I understand, which implies intent. DT doesn't tweet things he doesn't really believe in or care about just to rile people up: he says what he really means and he has no idea of the consequences (and doesn't care). It's literally the opposite of a troll. Which, of course, is terrifying when it's the president of the US.
- SirFatty 9y ago"DT doesn't tweet things he doesn't really believe in or care about" Really? Funny how he cares about Hillary when he's getting heat in the press. Then tweets distractions all day long. No, he's a troll, he trolls the press and his detractors with the twitter platform.
- alistproducer2 9y agoTrolling is all about creating a stink. There's different kinds of trolling, that come from different places. Some of it is because the troll really believes what he/she is saying. Some of it is saying whatever gets a rise out of your target, regardless of what you believe. In all cases a troll is a troll. There are DT is, in the literal sense of the phrase, king troll.
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y agoIf trolling is really about "creating a stink", regardless of intent/belief, then doesn't that kill it as a negative term? Are muckrakers trolls?
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- grawprog 9y agoOr maybe he posts all that stupid shit to keep Americans distracted and focused on it instead of how the people he's appointed to various places in government are destroying your country?
- sctb 9y agoWe ban accounts that violate the guidelines like this, so please stop and read them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
- grawprog 9y agoI'm not sure where I violated the guidelines. I was being serious. I wasn't being snarky. I would and have said that to people in person and really do believe the crap tweeted by Trump is a distraction from all the ridiculous things trying to be passed in the states right now. Many of which have been psted here on HN.
- jack-r-abbit 9y agoWell... a lot of people routinely break Twitters TOS with respect to abusive behavior (and other things) and don't get shut down. So there is that.