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Since we're on the topic, I'd like to point out that DT routinely breaks Twitters TOS with respect to abusive behavior [0] but twitter won't kill the goose that lays the golden publicity eggs. Now we find out that they were trying to sell massive amounts of ads to RT [1]. Remember kids, social media is not your friend.

[0]: https://support.twitter.com/articles/18311 [1]: https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/01/twitter-offered-russian-...

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Do you think that they should ban his account? I'm personally pretty pleased that the most powerful person in the world has an open channel that clearly nobody is able to control (otherwise half of the shit he writes wouldn't be approved, clearly).

Coalesced power is the greatest threat to those without it, and there is no greater than the executive branch of the US. As asinine as most of his posts are, I much prefer insight from my enemies than my friends.

I do actually. He's a troll - plain and simple. Make that ahole go to Gab where he belongs.

Think about that for a second. The president of the USA is a twitter troll. You really can't make this stuff up.

I don't think he's a troll, at least not in the sense of the word I understand, which implies intent.

DT doesn't tweet things he doesn't really believe in or care about just to rile people up: he says what he really means and he has no idea of the consequences (and doesn't care).

It's literally the opposite of a troll.

Which, of course, is terrifying when it's the president of the US.

"DT doesn't tweet things he doesn't really believe in or care about"

Really? Funny how he cares about Hillary when he's getting heat in the press. Then tweets distractions all day long. No, he's a troll, he trolls the press and his detractors with the twitter platform.

Trolling is all about creating a stink. There's different kinds of trolling, that come from different places. Some of it is because the troll really believes what he/she is saying. Some of it is saying whatever gets a rise out of your target, regardless of what you believe. In all cases a troll is a troll.

There are DT is, in the literal sense of the phrase, king troll.

If trolling is really about "creating a stink", regardless of intent/belief, then doesn't that kill it as a negative term? Are muckrakers trolls?

Wow, Twitter is selectively enforcing it's rules? Shocking.

Well... a lot of people routinely break Twitters TOS with respect to abusive behavior (and other things) and don't get shut down. So there is that.

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