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Makes sense. They just set a policy and he immediately attempted a workaround.

Let's have the free speech discussions debated through representatives. I can agree that violence should be removed by platforms immediately, and that "Stop the Steal" did promote just that.

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Here is better explained article on "The Washington Post".[0]

P.S. He is also removed from Mastodon[1] too:

> The page you were looking for doesn't exist here anymore.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/08/twitter...

[1] https://mastodon.social/@realDonaldTrump

When Biden moves to the White House, he should remove Trump's Presidential portrait from the wall. Completely unperson the guy, like he never existed.

That is only done for Presidents that are removed via the impeachment process. As a result, it has never actually happened. (While several presidents have been impeached in the House, the latter half of the process has never been successfully sustained in the Senate.)

Surely we can make an exception when a President leads an insurrection against his own country…

Why not impeach and remove him?

Yes like that picture of Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov!

Or like tearing down Confederate statues. There's no need to commemorate hate.

Denying where you've been ensures you repeat it. The alcoholic who cannot control himself when surrounded by alcohol is not truly cured of their alcoholism. The drink still controls them, because it directs them away from any cohabitance with alcohol.

The same with our sordid past.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_of_Man#/media/File%3... except, an orange

No, better yet: they should just place Obama's portrait in front of it.

Hard disagree. Permanent reminders of these failure need to be installed in very public places. The ideas and things that have resulted in the 37th of December (because 2020 didn't really stop) must be addressed. They are as a part of the US as the 3/5ths compromise on human life. Trying to power wash these stains away is not going to help the US. Meandering, uncomfortable, long, and difficult conversations are the best cure. There are no cheats to this, and there are no deferrals. Each US citizen is in this birthright.

That is what was happen with an official website of the President of Ukraine[0] when Zelenskyy came into the office after Poroshenko on May 2019: all data & photo archive, stored until May 2019, was fully removed from website by new admins.

But that is another story...

P.S. In 2018 I uploaded photo of the highest flagpole with the State Flag of Ukraine from presidential website to Wikimedia Commons archive[3] (as photo archive was under CreativeCommons). Since 2019 this photo was removed[4] from presidential website... Probably that is the only survived direct copy of this photo (except those which are available in Internet Archive's WaybackMachine snapshots of this site).

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[0] https://president.gov.ua

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20190520174801/https://www.presid...

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20190519173435/https://www.presid...

[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Ukraine_over...

[4] http://web.archive.org/web/20190421232312/https://www.presid...

Can someone explain how mastodon is able to remove an account? I thought the whole point of mastodon was that there wasn’t any one single group who controlled the platform?

Mastodon is federated. mastodon.social is a server run by Mastodon developers. Other servers are independent.

> P.S. He is also removed from Mastodon[1] too

For some reason, I thought that Mastadon was supposed to be free from censorship (for the sake of discussion, let's just call it that) because you could run your own servers.

Did Trump get removed from a specific server or from Mastadon in general? Or did everyone else choose not to link (not sure of the terminology) with him? And if it's possible to get removed from Mastadon, what makes it different than an ad-free clone of Twitter?

This looks like a specific account on an individual server. (which could have been registered by anyone)

Each Mastodon instance chooses which other instances they can federate with (whitelist or blacklist). Given that Mastodon's early adopters included a large amount of people who switched because they thought Twitter should have banned more people (often because of perceived harassment), they tend to quickly ban or blacklist anyone they see as bad actors.

It's free from censorship in the sense that someone could run their own server, but doesn't guarantee an audience.

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