Some site that I don’t know how to pronounce, SFist (I think it’s supposed to be San Franciscoist, but I see it as San Francisco Fist, and it nauseates me), is applauding Twitter because they want to see the official president’s account banned for hate speech.
What is that hate speech?
…his promise to ban Muslims from entering the country, threat to imprison and strip Americans of citizenship for exercising their First Amendment rights, and widespread insulting of people online…
when Trump wrote that he wanted to ban Muslims from entering the country, The Wall Street Journal reports that some Facebook employees advocating removing the post for violating the community standards on hate speech. Zuckerberg stepped in, allowing the post to remain, and later said views expressed by Trump are now part of the mainstream. “Our real goal is to reflect what our community wants,” he explained in a tech conference interview. “That kind of content, we would have thought previously that would make a lot of people feel uncomfortable, and people wouldn’t want that. But at the point where the person who’s elected president of the United States is expressing that opinion and has 60 million people who are followers, then the question is, OK, I think that that is mainstream political discourse that I think we need to be pretty careful about saying that that’s not a reasonable [inaudible].”
So, as Zuckerberg sees it Trump’s speech can never violate community standards because anything he says — no matter how repugnant — is now “mainstream political discourse.”
Leave it to Zuckerberg and Trump to make Twitter, a platform besieged with harassment, look like the thoughtful adult in the room.
It’s going to be a long four years.
My company, Twizzle, would allow Obama’s hate. When he says he’s going to let Syrians overrun small towns in America by importing them by the thousands, that particular hate for Americans is what will get the left defeated.
But San Francisco Fist thinks Twitter is “the adult in the room.”
Twitter got standards???
Twits, do so at your own peril.
This door swings BOTH WAYS now, mfers.
They have very simple rules! To violate their standards you have to be a loyal, patriotic, moral, religious, honest, employed, law abiding, freedom loving, straight, family oriented white person!
Cool! It will be the final convulsive act of a doomed company.
Twitter is making a huge mistake banning Trump. To me, as a low down republican peon, I don’t and won’t use Twitter.
I have been trying to get people to sign my petition to have congress mandate that Twitter and Facebook become open source public utilities. That’s the only way to stop these monopoly platforms from censoring.
Petition: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/congress-should-mandate-facebook-and-twitter-become-open-source-public-utilities
lol Strawman!
I have TWTR shorted – I made money earlier this year by expecting it to go down, and now with the election over and the possibility of another company buying it in the dumpster I think it’s a good bet.
lol Strawman!
I have TWTR shorted – I made money earlier this year by expecting it to go down, and now with the election over and the possibility of another company buying it in the dumpster I think it’s a good bet.
Do it! DO it!
annie Go Trump
Twits is picking a fight with Trump45…….
this should be fun.
The guy ain’t even in the White House yet and the world is already returning to normal.
I have NEVER used Twatter, and have no intention to ever use this socialistic farce. I hope PEOTUS Trump can find another means to reach around the stonewalling media dolts.
Twitter?
Fuck them
By violating Free Speech with moving rules to suit their desires, they are setting themselves (TWTR) as an easy target for FCC rules violations and fines. Go for it.
Banning Trump will seal the descent of Twitter into Being On The Wrong Side Of History from which they will never emerge. It will become the fantasy Playland for utopians, jihadists and assorted discontents talking to themselves, affecting nothing and no one outside their magic circle of protection – much like prison.
First of all, fuck Twitter, or Twatter. Stop using it. Let it die. Same with Facebook. Other things will take their place. Things that don’t reject our Constitution.
DJT would be welcome over at Gab. 👍
Hope that’s the straw that breaks the twatter back. Ban Trump and lose over half the country – not the smartest business move. Idiots slitting their own wrists.
But libs can say whatever nasty, vicious things they want.
The Twitter that just gave the terrorist muslim brotherhood a verified account? That Twitter?
Twitter is hovering just above the sh*ter.
Can’t understand Dorsey at all. He’s trying to find a buyer for this company (can’t find what his ownership stake is) as they seems to be losing money at a pretty good clip and they come out and state that they’d ban POTUS account if it dones’t meet their standards. Geezuz, is he trying to collapse the company figuring that if the share price drops off a cliff when a third of it’s members cancel their accounts then Yahoo or Google will come rushing in with a checkbook? If the Board of Directors cared a wit about this company and the outside people that actually bought shares they need to step in.
LEFTY LOONIES who own bidnesses /sarc off are in the latest habit of slitting their jugulars to paint the picture red. Go for it. Wonder if Soros is priming their pumps to do this so he can swoop in and add to his collection of deplorables?
Twitter and FB are the ghettos of the internet.
ON A SIDE NOTE- Does anyone besides me think it a bit premature to go off on a victory tour starting Thursday, when all this recount mess is going on, and before the Electoral College meets Dec 19th? I can understand re-invigorating the base, but is it also counting chickens before they hatch? Not being negative, just a bit superstitious, maybe. I would love to attend one of Trump’s rallies in person if it is signed, sealed, and delivered.