TWTR <-- Dead Meat
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Legitimate question as to the impact this will have on the company's stock price. I was trying to move the conversation in that direction with my last couple posts (although admittedly not in my first ones
).Banning Trump is not Silicon Valley controlling things; it's Silicon Valley kissing the ring for the "blessing" from the Big Boss in Washington. Otherwise they get whacked with the anti-trust big stick. Banning Trump is their way of paying the dues. Who cares about First Amendment rights, who cares about more than half of the country who voted for Trump, it's pleasing the new boss that matters.
You are right. This should be in the "Politics" forum because what the Big Tech social media companies are doing to Trump is a pure political lobbying move. Has nothing to do with first amendment or anything.
The issue is the blatant double-standard. How the does someone like Maxine Waters still have a twitter account after this:
How is that not inciting violence? Show me video of Trump saying something more inciting than that. There were literally 100 days of violent riots/protests in Portland. I never heard any mainstream media outrage over those events. They were sympathetic and referred to the protestors as "mostly peaceful" and never used words like "mob", "insurrectionists", or "violent" as they lit businesses and Federal buildings on fire, looted, violently beat and even killed people.
I hear you speaking out against violent riots when black left leaning folks are involved. I don't see you speaking out against violent riots when white right leaning folks are involved, but instead attempting to excuse it using whataboutism. That is the definition of hypocrisy and a double standard.
Oh, and perhaps the context of attacking the capitol while congress was tallying the electoral vote in a clearly stated attempt to overthrow the results of our country's election might be considered a little more serious to the future of the Republic than people who, also wrongly, were trying to occupy a federal building in Portland to bring attention to black folks getting killed by police. As I've pointed out in this thread before, being purposely obtuse and pedantic doesn't reflect well on the person engaging in it.
BTW, this is a thread about Twitter. You do realize you embedded a link to a CNN clip?
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trump has repeatedly violated the TOS of Twitter for the last five years. You should be asking why was *he* given so much leaway instead of putting some whatsboutism.
I like the end comment: “Donald Trump isn’t the cause of this great revolt, he is the result of it”. Which I took to mean that the American people are fed up with the business as usual career politicians that have been secretly fucking us for decades...cough cough “10% for the big guy” cough cough Uranium One, etc..
the media has highlighted every single little thing Trump has done and spun it in as negative a way possible while never giving him credit for a single positive thing he has done. Imagine if Obama had made peace with N. Korea or stood up to China over the trade deficit (instead of bomb brown kids in the Middle East)...the media would hail him as the hero of the nation.
The swamp was just too deep and Trump’s control over his own mouth was too shallow...
Wait, you really think Trump "made peace with North Korea"? And you expect us to take anything you say from here on out seriously?
BTW, can you tell me what the trade deficit with China was in 2016 vs today? I'll wait while you look it up. Note that a bigger number isn't better in this case.