I don't disagree with every point Twitter made, but their entire argument is invalidated by the fact that people that respond to Trump's tweets with a similar tone are punished with suspensions or bans. Their part of the conversation is then deleted. https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2017/world-leaders-and-twitter.html …
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If you want to use the whole "we need to have a conversation about what's being said" argument, then you have to allow that conversation to happen. You cannot allow a powerful man to punch down and then tone police the resulting dissent.
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That said, the conversation about Trump's actions would still happen on this platform even if he wasn't still here. I think there's more to this decision that Twitter is unwilling to make public.
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OK, I'm going to tweet out something *very* unpopular here, and feel free to argue with me, though I won't be responding to everyone (actually, I've got to go afk for a while, so tweet away)
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Aside from Trump trying to go out and start wars with north korea, I question the real impact that removing him from Twitter would have. And I wonder if people's motivations for wanting to remove him is more a "gotcha" at those maga idiots than it is actual problem solving.
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I think it's possible for all of us to justify wanting him removed, but I think sometimes we're losing sight of the actual problem & we just want to make it disappear from view.
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To me it's about forcing him to revert to more traditional comms that he's bad at rather than having a direct channel to his base.
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