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twitter just permanently banned donald trump

h.h.

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Companies get sold to larger ones all the time. This is not a new thing and no big deal. If I had a company and maybe got bored with it or it wasn´t doing so well anymore and then got a really great offer for it, I´d sell too. So what? I go home rich.

As for parler getting shut down, who cares? I recently read an article where it was mentioned and that place is financed, run by and frequented by right wing extremists, racisists and even modern day Nazis. Is it really such a great loss? not in my opinion.





Twitter is a private company and as such they have the right to ask people to behave in a decent manner and if they don´t they can `punish´ them by say cancelling their accounts. I think that´s perfectly reasonable because it´s their company and they make the rules and rules do tend to get changed over time.

Like I said these platforms have agreed to do a better job at monitoring things like mobbing, hate speech etc in recent years. True it was due to pressure from some governments including the british one, but is that a bad thing? it´s nothing to do with `the right to free speech´, imo.

If someone is being abusive they get just kicked out and censored.


If some guy or woman acted that shit repeatedly they end up being barred from the local pub too. Why should the internet be any different?

The internet has been used and abused by people with bad attitudes for way too long. It´s high time people learn you can´t get away with everything and cracking down on them is long overdue.


I totally agree with politicans (not ) using twitter or facebook first to announce policies. I want to hear that stuff when watching the news!

I felt like I was forced to use Twitter to stay current.
Good post(s).
 

h.h.

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who or what did you follow? just curious
I´ve always felt the opposite about twitter

Mostly trump . Don jr. A few local politicians. Huckabee.

A lot of news reports just repeated Twitter, so I went straight to the source.
They stopped doing Presidential press briefings and when they did do them, they were in the middle of the day.
There is a lot of trash on Twitter, not that what I followed wasn’t. I’m glad to be off it.
 

mojave green

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well, Instagram is known for deleting stuff that is too sexy/ erotic, including art and they cancel peoples accounts for that reason too. No freedom in that respect :bigeye:
The GOP is all about censoring porn, but censor an orange turd for inciting a violent insurrection an they all up in arms.
:bigeye:
 

CosmicGiggle

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Why was cannavor banned? He was actually against the democrats in some ways.

Banning has nothing to do with being for or against any political party.

I believe he caught a ban for a repeated insult, though can't say for sure as it wasn't my call.

He'll be back, he's ICMag family!:kissgrin:
 
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Why was cannavor banned? He was actually against the democrats in some ways.

I don't think you'll find many people who AREN'T against the democratic party in one way or another, they aren't a cult of personality like Trumpism.
 
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mean mr.mustard

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They threw Bernie under the bus.

They thought Hillary was a good bet.

The Democratic party is still filled with corporate stooges just like the GOP.
 

St. Phatty

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https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/m...timeline-gop-rep-files-articles-against-biden

It would be cool-er if the person being impeached was required to come to the "court" where they are being judged - like a normal trial.

So Trump could make one more trip to Washington DC, and perhap speaking in his defense, can tell us what a great job he's doing with whatever.

He is so funny when he talks like that.

Of course if I was his personal coach I would tell him to work more in the garden, and to ignore all that Wash DC stuff. And to shuffle his feet when he walks in the ocean, so he doesn't step on a sting-ray.


Actually if I was his personal coach I might try to get him to step on a sting-ray. :party:
 

unclefishstick

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https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/m...timeline-gop-rep-files-articles-against-biden

It would be cool-er if the person being impeached was required to come to the "court" where they are being judged - like a normal trial.

So Trump could make one more trip to Washington DC, and perhap speaking in his defense, can tell us what a great job he's doing with whatever.

He is so funny when he talks like that.

Of course if I was his personal coach I would tell him to work more in the garden, and to ignore all that Wash DC stuff. And to shuffle his feet when he walks in the ocean, so he doesn't step on a sting-ray.


Actually if I was his personal coach I might try to get him to step on a sting-ray. :party:




steve? steve irwin? is that you?:bigeye:
 

White Beard

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Companies get sold to larger ones all the time. This is not a new thing and no big deal. If I had a company and maybe got bored with it or it wasn´t doing so well anymore and then got a really great offer for it, I´d sell too. So what? I go home rich.

As for parler getting shut down, who cares? I recently read an article where it was mentioned and that place is financed, run by and frequented by right wing extremists, racisists and even modern day Nazis. Is it really such a great loss? not in my opinion.

Twitter is a private company and as such they have the right to ask people to behave in a decent manner and if they don´t they can `punish´ them by say cancelling their accounts. I think that´s perfectly reasonable because it´s their company and they make the rules and rules do tend to get changed over time.

Like I said these platforms have agreed to do a better job at monitoring things like mobbing, hate speech etc in recent years. True it was due to pressure from some governments including the british one, but is that a bad thing? it´s nothing to do with `the right to free speech´, imo.

If someone is being abusive they get just kicked out and censored.

If some guy or woman acted that shit repeatedly they end up being barred from the local pub too. Why should the internet be any different?

The internet has been used and abused by people with bad attitudes for way too long. It´s high time people learn you can´t get away with everything and cracking down on them is long overdue.

I totally agree with politicans (not ) using twitter or facebook first to announce policies. I want to hear that stuff when watching the news!

Hi gaiusmarius, As much as I dislike the `power´ those tech companies have but we have as a matter of fact in a way `elected´ them! Now, there was never a national vote in any country to use or not to use their services but people simply chose to use them - nobody ever forced to get people to use Facebook or Twitter but they do ( for whatever bizarre reason).

As for `power´: you can be an internet platform and noone gives a toss. You can be posting on an internet platform and onone gives a toss either. You can have your own website and nobody gives a sh*t.

I don´t think it´s so much that the companies or social media have the power but rather the people that make use of them.

For better or worse.
You make excellent points. May I add a few?

We talk about the unregulated power of these companies like it’s a bad thing, and I’ll agree for the moment. I think it has distracted us from the unregulated power ALL companies have compared to individuals - even in an era when there’s been so much dust in the air about over-regulation, and even regulation of any kind.

“Tech giants” *do* have power, but it’s because we’ve been drunk on DEregulation for 40 years...and at the same time, we’ve grown more and more suspicious of “government” and more fond of “private enterprise”...*the same* private enterprise WE DON’T REGULATE. The Tech sector isn’t unique: finance, insurance, real estate are huge, highly predatory, and shockingly unregulated in terms of what they’re allowed to get away with. We haven’t gotten to the drug industry, or big agriculture, or the military-industrial complex yet.

So many have forgotten that the entire purpose of our government is to protect us citizens from predatory private interests - from robber barons and from real barons - every bit as much as from a tyrannical government. The founders were deeply suspicious of the power of accumulated wealth, and of the power of incorporated interests; they held corporations on a short, tight leash until Rhode Island (?) took the reins off and allowed RI-incorporated entities to do whatever they wanted with their money and their business. It’s been a long slide downhill since.

This is not to brush aside any of what we already have on the table, but if we’re going to make a serious effort at regulating “the net” or social media or whatever, then we really need to look at all the ways in which private business harm citizens and harm the economy and harm communities, because each of those is in effect, a tax, an inevitability, one we have NO control over at all, not even a vote....

They threw Bernie under the bus.

They thought Hillary was a good bet.

The Democratic party is still filled with corporate stooges just like the GOP.
Corporate stooges aplenty, yes, but NOT “just like” the GOP. No one was ‘supposed’ to run it for us, or to our liking: our system requires hands-on control, and too many of us spend too much of life with our hands OFF while we bitch about the ride and the driver and the traffic and the route. Of course we get off course. We keep expecting someone else to keep an eye out. It keeps not working. It’ll work even less well with all these newly ex-Republican ‘democrats’ demanding the party steer to the right because ‘unity’ suddenly seems comfortable.

I see no reason to appease the unreasonable, and I don’t need another round of object lessons in how government-by-marketing and remote-control civic responsibility do not work; I’d rather keep the motherfuckers from getting out of line in the first place (it’s fucking hell when you need to go catch them), so occupying the democrats makes sense
 

armedoldhippy

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St. Phatty;9103590 Actually if I was his personal coach I might try to get him to step on a sting-ray. :party:[/QUOTE said:
why not? ignorant fucker has wiped his damn feet on everything else he came across. let him have a go at something that can fight back...;)
 

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