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Banning Trump's social media accounts wouldn't require bias against him, it would simply require him to stop receiving special exemption from platform rules.
by Marsymars 7y ago
Banning Trump's social media accounts wouldn't require bias against him, it would simply require him to stop receiving special exemption from platform rules.
- chc 7y agoPeople are downvoting this, but it's just a matter of fact. Jack Dorsey has repeatedly said that the "newsworthiness" of Trump's tweets outweighs the ordinary standards of propriety that get applied to other people's tweets. Somebody asked Jack point blank whether Twitter would take action if Trump made a tweet explicitly asking his followers to murder a journalist, and Jack's response was, "We'd certainly talk about it." (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/18/would-calling-murder-get-trump-banned-twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-wont-say/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/18/would-calli...)
- lol2143651 7y agoTwitter didn't ban accounts calling for the murder of the Covington kids. There clearly are no standards for you to hide behind.
- gjs278 7y agomaybe those rules shouldn’t apply to anyone
- manfredo 7y agoSpecific individuals aside, the point was to explain that Bosworth was talking about how Facebook shouldn't use it's platforms to benefit the candidates of their preference.