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This person killed 8 innocent people by plowing into them with a car. If one of those persons was a loved one of your own, would you want him to get the death penalty?

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No, that's sick. Civilized states like New York don't execute people, only the federal government can do so here (in an arguable violation of the "states' rights" that Republicans hold so dearly).

I'm sorry we can disagree then, but if somebody ran over and killed one of my loved ones and seven other innocent people purely because they despise American's, I'd want the death penalty for that person.

You can want it, and say it, but not on Twitter and that was the point. He probably got temp banned for violating their Code of Conduct in regards to Hateful Conduct.

>He probably got temp banned for violating their Code of Conduct in regards to Hateful Conduct.

This is such a garbage standard. It simply amounts to any speech whoever is running the support team that day doesn't like.

> He probably got temp banned for violating their Code of Conduct in regards to Hateful Conduct.

Nope. It was intentional. Employee's last day.

>If one of those persons was a loved one of your own, would you want him to get the death penalty?

Probably, but none of them were Trump's loved ones, so your appeal to emotion is irrelevant in his case.

As President, Trump is supposed to respect the rule of law and the rights of American citizens (all of them, even the mass-murdering terrorists) not call for their summary execution in all caps like a rageposting lunatic.

Other points notwithstanding, Sayfullo Saipov is not an American citizen.

> Saipov came to the United States in 2010 on a diversity visa, the Department of Homeland Security said. He has since become a legal permanent resident.

While not a "citizen" essentially, excluding voting rights.

So, not a citizen.

Fair enough, then. Is he subject to American laws? Does he have the protection of the same Constitutional and legal rights as any American, including presumption of innocence and a fair trial?

I have no idea. I am not an American. Merely pointing out that he is not a citizen, which grandparent comment vaguely suggested that he was.

Not if he’s tried as an enemy combatant, which there are legal grounds for given his connections with an entity with which the US is at war.

Im just arguing that Twitter has a Code of Conduct [1] and Trump definitely falls across that line frequently, I could easily see how he should be banned but probably has special privilege as for he is solely responsible for saving the business from demise.

[1] https://support.twitter.com/articles/20175050#

Sure, but I think you're missing the bigger point. It's not about Twitter's business, it's about free speech and the fact that he is the fairly elected president of the United States. You can't pick and choose. I'm sure I'll continue to get downvoted though.

You're getting downvoted because your reply was a non sequitur. Nobody was making a claim as to whether he should have said what he said, just that it might have triggered some automatic controls in place at Twitter that might have contributed to this event.

> It's not about Twitter's business, it's about free speech

You're incorrect here, for Twitter it's 100% about business, money and relevancy.

This isn’t about free speech, Twitter can kick Trump off its platform for whatever reason they want, including that the President of the United States is breaking their TOS. It’s their platform, the President isn’t required to get special treatment.

Twitters TOS are already selectively enforced so it’s a logical step to extend a privilege to a VIP account (in the revenue sense)

> If one of those persons was a loved one of your own, would you want him to get the death penalty?

No, I wouldn't. That seems like an easy way out for them. Why should I have to live a life of pain and suffering from my loss and they don't?

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