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

Posted by timothy on from the whose-judgement-do-you-care-for? dept.

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?

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  1. Re:A libtard SJW submits his own opinions as news by DewDude · · Score: 1, Troll

    Just remember the person who submitted the story had the decency to put his name on it. You, on the other hand; are about like every other conservative...the name "Anonymous Coward" fits you perfectly. Your narrow-minded opinions mean squat if you don't have the decency to own up to them.

  2. Re:Because that would be unimaginable CENSORSHIP? by DogDude · · Score: 0, Troll

    CENSORSHIP has nothing to do with private companies, you uneducated fool. Twitter would be (and should be) enforcing their policies of no hate speech.

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  3. Re:Because that would be unimaginable CENSORSHIP? by PapayaSF · · Score: 1, Troll

    Ah, the old "It's not censorship because it's a private company" thing that we always hear from leftists when non-leftist speech is suppressed. This is a principle of convenience, of course. Do these same people support the 1950s Hollywood (private company) blacklists of communists and fellow-travelers? Of course not! That's entirely different, somehow....

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  4. Re:He's been trying for months now by ooloorie · · Score: 1, Troll

    Catholics have a core text that can at least be invoked to "love your fellow man", "turn the other cheek", and "render to Caesar that which is Caesar's".

    Catholicism has an even more ruthless and bloody history than Islam. And the Calvinists were pretty much like the Taliban.

    That's no accident either: all of these religions pray to the same God, and that God is a mass murderer and psychopath, as documented in the OT. Like many mass murderers and psychopaths, God has his occasionally charming side, but that doesn't excuse His crimes.