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Let's take a helicopter view first. Accounts being banned because of hate-speech, threatening violence, or glorification of terrorist acts is nothing new and sh
by de6u99er 6y ago
Let's take a helicopter view first. Accounts being banned because of hate-speech, threatening violence, or glorification of terrorist acts is nothing new and shouldn't surprise anybody here.
That being said, Trump's Twitter account, contrary to other peoples accounts, enjoyed special privileges and protection only because he was (currently still is) the president if the USA.
After the riots which were started at his rally, him not only refusing to condemn the violence but actually endorsing it, and the Capitol Police's stranfe way of handling the situation, he lost this privilege.
On a personal note I'd like to add, that Trump pardoning war criminals and protecting disproportional police violence reminded me of Adolf Hitler's rise when he surrounded himself with dishonorably discharged military and police before he grabbed absolute power in Germany.
I believe USA ditched a bullet here. Without his catastrophic COVID-19 response he might have been re-elected and behaved more unhinged than he already did in his second term.