Trump’s Truth Social Is Banning Users Who Post About Jan. 6 Hearings
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Note the SPAC that financed TMTG is under SEC investigation: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/spac-tied-tru...
How hard can it be to get your most popular user into any search engine?
I think the problem is the media are not linking to it, not even conservative media. When no one cares about what you're saying enough to link to it, search engines don't assign importance to it.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
But "Oh no, the dirty woke leftie search engines are banning us!"...
Since we all know it's Trump little website/he'd be the most famous user (is he even still there?) I'd expect his profile is linked from the homepage, but that's not the case either...
What we do know:
1. Yandex and Baidu can't find it either. Russian and Chinese search engines have no incentive to derank Trump - if anything, the opposite (he's great for sowing division among Americans and it would boost the tech bias narrative).
2. As another commenter has noted, Truth Social bans all robots, including search engine web crawlers.
Truth Social literally asks search engines not to rank them.
https://truthsocial.com/robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
There is nothing fishy going on.We need to stop identifying as democrats or republicans and be Americans first. There's no compromise in Congress because it works out better for the parties, not better for Americans.
Wikipedia says "...initially did not make its source code available, violating Mastodon's AGPLv3 license. After Eugen Rochko sent a formal letter to Truth Social's chief legal officer on 26 October 2021,[57] Truth Social published its source code on 12 November 2021." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software)
There didnt seem to any commentary or analysis. Just videos of testimony and extensive clips of the events at the Capitol, most of which where pretty unflattering to those who swarmed the place.
Not complaining ( which is not permitted by the rules). Just asking.
But importantly, minorities sometimes win. There's the bill of rights. There's case law. There's popular vote in presidential elections, contrary to the Electoral College vote - as in Bush 2000 and Trump 2016, in which majorities submitted to the outcome, i.e. they did not revolt. Thus the government continued.
Also importantly, Lincoln is pointing out that even a significant minority can be extremely disruptive to civil order, that it is actually a fragile business. And Trump and his pro-autocrat supporters have laid the ground for a significant minority simply refusing to be governed in numbers exceeding law enforcement's ability to contain it. No one can predict whether that'll be attempted or actually succeed, but the Bastille-storming moment is the mere attempt at such a coup, despite being a failed coup, despite it surely failing even had the goals at the Capitol succeeded: assassination of any number of elected officials, stopping the Electoral Vote count or fabricating an alternative outcome... the people who were needed to make a coup succeed simply weren't present in positions of power to make it happen. But we can do counter factuals to analyze whether and how that could have been different, and end up with a different result.
Both of Trump's AG's in the last three months following the election told him he lost. Both told him there was no evidence of fraud in any amount that would alter the outcome of the election. Well, what if one of them said he won and that he absolutely had authority and a duty to order the military against the Congress? You'd need multiple members of the armed forces willing to go along with that. It wouldn't just be one. And it's essentially certain armed forces would split, because all of them are trained about military coups and interventions, and the deceptive trap of militaries getting involved in civilian decision making processes.
The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012 (written in 1992, imagining a coup had taken place in the U.S. in 2012 - it's been required reading in the various military colleges for at least a couple of decades)
"Truth Social is America's "Big Tent" social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology."
followed by: "Access denied You do not have access to truthsocial.com. The site owner may have set restrictions that prevent you from accessing the site. Contact the site owner for access or try loading the page again."
Enough said.
He could have had a great life as the big shot face of The Apprentice, and be fondly remembered for his "YOU'RE FIRED" catch phrase. Instead, he seems to be turning into more of a joke with every passing day. It must trouble him a bit too. SAD.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/texas-bans-onlin...
The law is sculpted to not apply to things like Truth Social.
We wouldmy want say hackernews to be regulated the same way as twitter /Facebook after all.
1: users post about the hearings and start a yarn about Trump not having lost for real, the election being stolen, etc.
2: the web and its brother get up in arms about the fake news being spread on TS
3: TS gets its domain revoked, its web hosting is dropped, backbone providers start dropping traffic to it, the electricity company filters electrons bound for TS servers, etc.
4: TS disappears down the same hole Parler fell in...