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Trump was banned for inciting violence, not for lying. Here were the grounds for the ban: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension https:/
by faeriechangling 4y ago
Trump was banned for inciting violence, not for lying. Here were the grounds for the ban: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...
I find the rationale weak, Biden objectively has incited magnitudes more violence on twitter by constantly tweeting about how Putin is destroying the global economy and criticising Putin's war, something likely to "incite violence". Far far more than violence than we saw in 2020. It's just that people including Twitters administration are broadly sympathetic with him and supportive of violent resistance.
What Trump got banned for is not inciting violence, but for being an asshole. You can ban any president you please if the standard is "inciting violence" because they'll do hundreds of things in their term that incites violence no matter what they do. It's not the case that twitter will ban everybody who incites violence, they just reserve the right to selectively ban anybody who does.