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Twitter Just Explained Why It Hasn't Suspended Donald Trump
After Sen. Kamala Harris called for the president's account to be suspended, Twitter waited a few weeks, and then said no.
By Alex Kantrowitz At BuzzFeed
Posted on October 15, 2019, at 5:22 p.m. ET
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/twitter-explained-why-it-hasnt-suspended-donald-trump
"SNIP....
Twitter clarified when it will enforce rules against "world leaders." Which is Twitter's way of relaying what Donald Trump can do on the platform. The upshot: Unless Trump explicitly violates Twitter's rules, leaving no room for interpretation, the company will do nothing.
"We focus on the language of reported Tweets," Twitter said in a blog postTuesday, "and do not attempt to determine all potential interpretations of the content or its intent."
Twitter's blog post comes in the wake of a series of controversial tweets from Trump that drew condemnation from Sen. Kamala Harris, a Democrat representing California and running for the party's nomination for president, who called for Twitter to suspend him.
"Trump's tweets about the whistleblower represent a clear intent to harass, intimidate, or silence their voice," Harris wrote in an open letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. "His blatant threats put people at risk and our democracy in danger. His account must be suspended."
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C_U_L8R
(45,014 posts)applegrove
(118,745 posts)Backseat Driver
(4,394 posts)I could no longer see the content of posts from Twitter on DU!
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)Leaders should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us, not lower. If any of us tweeted the lowlife crap he did, we would all be suspended or banned.
dflprincess
(28,082 posts)yes, he violates the rules. But it is also the best illustration of giving someone enough rope so they can hang themself I've ever seen. Remember, everything he tweets is public record.
rurallib
(62,433 posts)No wonder he thinks he's above the law.
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)They will never burn him. He's the golden shit-gibbon.
Ms. Toad
(34,085 posts)It is a new article - but it looks like the same-old-same old
real Cannabis calm
(1,124 posts)Cosmocat
(14,567 posts)Rs would have found some way to shut it down a LONG time ago.