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What has he really done to merit being kicked off the platform? He just types in all caps and posts 50 times a day.

Barrin92 6y ago
Covid Misinformation and abuse seem most obvious, given that the platform has already removed Infowars and Alex Jones, whose content Trump at times ad verbatim retweeted. Here's a fairly long list[1] of public figures having been kicked off the platform for I suppose similar behaviour. I think even Trump Jr was suspended at one point. Didn't Twitter even explicitly carve out an exemption for 'political figures'? Which let's be honest means Trump. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_suspensions#List_of_notable_suspensions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_suspensions#List_of_no...
- trident1000 6y ago
  Id have to see specific examples as this is pretty vague. And I believe Dorsey said himself that misinformation is not against the Twitter rules (might have an exception for certain topics though). Probably because half the users on the site would be kicked off in a year. Also think we need to be careful about the term "misinformation" as that can at times mean my opinion vs your opinion. For instance Fauci flipped on masks several times (im not hating on the guy)...but which time was it misinformation and not misinformation? This is exactly why people need to be entitled to their opinions in a free expression form. You can direct the conversation without kicking people off and censoring people. Another example is Twitter completely flopping when censoring the NY Post "misinformation" which turned out to be undeniably true.
- redis_mlc 6y ago
  I just read the Wikipedia Twitter suspension list. It's alarming - many of the reasons for the suspensions were false, if not absurd, and those suspensions should never have happened in the first place. It's like snowflakes run amok at a major media platform.

Covid Misinformation and abuse seem most obvious, given that the platform has already removed Infowars and Alex Jones, whose content Trump at times ad verbatim retweeted. Here's a fairly long list[1] of public figures having been kicked off the platform for I suppose similar behaviour. I think even Trump Jr was suspended at one point. Didn't Twitter even explicitly carve out an exemption for 'political figures'? Which let's be honest means Trump. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_suspensions#List_of_notable_suspensions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_suspensions#List_of_no...

trident1000 6y ago
Id have to see specific examples as this is pretty vague. And I believe Dorsey said himself that misinformation is not against the Twitter rules (might have an exception for certain topics though). Probably because half the users on the site would be kicked off in a year. Also think we need to be careful about the term "misinformation" as that can at times mean my opinion vs your opinion. For instance Fauci flipped on masks several times (im not hating on the guy)...but which time was it misinformation and not misinformation? This is exactly why people need to be entitled to their opinions in a free expression form. You can direct the conversation without kicking people off and censoring people. Another example is Twitter completely flopping when censoring the NY Post "misinformation" which turned out to be undeniably true.
redis_mlc 6y ago
I just read the Wikipedia Twitter suspension list. It's alarming - many of the reasons for the suspensions were false, if not absurd, and those suspensions should never have happened in the first place. It's like snowflakes run amok at a major media platform.