Twitter accused of double standards over ban on tweets wishing death on Trump
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Celebrities or the president should get the exact same treatment anyone else gets, because Trump on twitter is literally just Donald Trump, not the president. If he wants to speak ex cathedra, he has official channels for that purpose.
There has been a specific legal battle about almost exactly this question. So far, the US court system disagrees with you.
> "These tweets are published by a public official clothed with the authority of the state using social media as a tool of governance and as an official channel of communication on an interactive public platform," [2nd circuit] appeals court Judge Barrington Parker wrote.
Trump is appealing that outcome though.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/20/donal...
""By ignoring the critical distinction between the president’s (sometimes) official statements on Twitter and his always personal decision to block respondents from his own account, the opinion blurs the line between state action and private conduct," Wall said in asking the Supreme Court to hear the case."
The role of the presidential office and the private citizen Trump should not be treated as synonymous. Of course Trump is probably the worst particular case here because he blurs the line intentionally. For the reason outlined in the argument Trump ought to communicate through official channels and users on twitter should all be subject to the same rules. Or alternatively we acknowledge that Twitter is now the public square which means nobody gets to ban anyone else.
They’re never going to kill the golden goose.
The closer he goes to death the riskier a carrier he is.
Not that wishing death on someone is actually a death threat or anything real, does Twitter think all those Amharic Curses are real as well?
Also, are we capitalizing Left now?
I understand the tactic of denying the left or antifa don't exist.
But the fact HN falls for these stoner teenager properganda ideas is a problem. Sure, nothing is actually real. It's all inspecific cultural artifacts created by out meat computers. But then nothing actually matters including believing it's real.
To the article, there is nothing factual in this article. No statistics or graphs or data just left bent politics.