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Twitter banned him just after he told protestors to go home. His message of deescalation will not reach them, instead they will see he is banned and be further
by im3w1l 6y ago
Twitter banned him just after he told protestors to go home. His message of deescalation will not reach them, instead they will see he is banned and be further riled up. This is a very dangerous game twitter is playing.
- Pfhreak 6y agoThere's nothing about that that message that was a message of de-escalation. He literally told the insurrectionists that he loved them and that the election was a fraud.
- jachee 6y agoThat "go home in peace" message had all the sincerity and subtext of "Sure is a... nice place ya got here..."
- eertami 6y ago>message of deescalation Pull the other one. That's not what it was.
- NovemberWhiskey 6y agoYour timeline is wrong. The hiding of the tweets and the account lockdown happened after the police had already begun to re-take the Capitol; I want to say several hours later.
- true_religion 6y agoIf he wants to reach out to people he has other avenues like public airwaves, the emergency broadcast system, the white house website, etc. We shouldn't act like Twitter is muzzling him during a time of crisis. Surely, a sitting US president can talk to the public without begging a private company to publish his words.
- im3w1l 6y agoGood point.
- abernard1 6y ago> Surely, a sitting US president can talk to the public without begging a private company to publish his words. Um, are television companies not private in the U.S.? Do you regularly check the White House website? Would it be appropriate to make ordinary statements on an emergency broadcast? This is just completely ludicrous. Broadcasting where there are no listeners is useless.
- fredophile 6y agoMaybe they could gather the media into one room in the White House and tell them all the things the President wants them to know. I bet reporters would show up every day to something like that.
- emteycz 6y agoPerhaps the president wants a more direct mode of communication? I bet that has better response with the public.
- fredophile 6y agoI'm sure he does want that but he's not entitled to it. If he wants to use Twitter he should follow the same ToS as everyone else. If he doesn't like them he can use something else.
- beerandt 6y ago>public airwaves, the emergency broadcast system, the white house website The use of all/any of these things require the cooperation of, or direct services of, private companies. Even public legal notices, going back the full history of the country, have been published on the pages of privately owned newspapers.
- mattnewton 6y agoTwitter left up the message telling people to go home, and took down the tweets saying they were special people doing important work, that the election was actually a landslide victory for him, and was being stolen.
- JeremyNT 6y agoMessage of de-escalation? Did you watch the video? One moment he says to go home, the next he says the election was stolen in an unprecedented action against him. At best it's a mixed message. If you're telling people that the election is actively being stolen, what are your expectations for their response exactly? That they say "aw shucks" and go home?
- im3w1l 6y agoI think it means "the protest was good and legitimate but it needs to end now."
- nr2x 6y agoAnd yet that’s not quite what he said, is it?
- abootstrapper 6y agoThat’s the absurd thing about Trump. His words are interpreted like a horoscope by his supporters. They mean whatever you need them to mean.
- citrablue 6y agoIt rarely seems to have the effect of promoting healthy and respectful discourse. Instead it appears to always inflame.
- paulgb 6y agoI agree, and it’s not an accident, it’s about creating plausible deniability so that his base can say “he said X” when really he said Y. “Stand down and stand by” is a prime example of this.
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- newguy1234 6y agoThey did it on purpose.