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> To ban a democratically elected president of the united states. Quite dystopian. Actually the opposite - Trump did and said many things that would have gotte
by paulmd 5y ago
> To ban a democratically elected president of the united states. Quite dystopian.
Actually the opposite - Trump did and said many things that would have gotten literally anyone else banned, and Twitter literally had to make a special exception in their rules for him because of it.
https://www.vox.com/recode/22233450/trump-twitter-facebook-ban-world-leader-rules-exception https://www.vox.com/recode/22233450/trump-twitter-facebook-b...
This is the old "when you're used to supremacy, equality feels like oppression" situation in action. Trump got more slack than anyone else ever would have, and when they finally did come down conservatives are still mad that it was "biased" and "unfair" somehow.
tbh I think the potential for retaliation likely also stayed Twitter's hand - if they had enforced the rules equally while he was still president, he likely would have found ways to retaliate against them.