Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com)

Lauren Weinstein writes: The conclusion appears inescapable. Twitter apparently has voluntarily chosen to 'look the other way' while Donald Trump spews forth a trolling stream of hate and other abuses that would cause any average Twitter user to be terminated in a heartbeat. There's always room to argue the proprietary or desirability of any given social media content terms of service — or the policy precepts through which they are applied. It is also utterly clear that if such rules are not applied to everyone with the same vigor, particularly when there's an appearance of profiting by making exceptions for particular individuals, the moral authority on which those rules are presumably based is decimated, pointless, and becomes a mere fiction. Would you rather Twitter shut down no account ever, apply a sort of white-listing policy, or something in the middle?

Comments

Re:Because that would be unimaginable CENSORSHIP?

[mikael]

That's leftists for you. "Why is the other party in power when we have more supporters and membership than they do....."

Re:Seriously?

[MightyMartian]

I don't know, but I see a lot of rightard ACs are crying wolf, even though if Twitter decided to not let trump post any more, that's perfectly within their rights