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Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account (npr.org)
A reader shares an NPR report: With the push of a button, an employee at Twitter accomplished for a brief few minutes on Thursday what President Trump's closest advisors have reportedly been trying unsuccessfully to do for months: shut down the seemingly never-ending tweet stream at @realDonaldTrump. Perhaps it was an act of civil disobedience, or maybe just a "take this job and shove it" moment, but shortly before 7 p.m., the president's personal account kicked back the error message "does not exist." By 7:03 p.m., it was up and running again and within about a half-hour, new presidential tweets were forthcoming. The folks at Twitter leapt into action to find out what had happened: "Earlier today @realdonaldtrump's account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee. The account was down for 11 minutes, and has since been restored. We are continuing to investigate and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again," the company said in a statement. Two hours later, the company said, "Through our investigation we have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee's last day."
Constant Trump bashing.
Constant AGW bullshit.
No wonder most people have left this once excellent site.
This is the $64,000 question right here. Twitter has been actively censoring viewpoints they don't like and there is literally no oversight. 1984 memory holes are alive and well at Twitter.
Everyone in the media has an obligation to freedom of speech and ALL other freedoms or they are a traitor.
Umm no dumbass, that's not how any of this works.
They're a window into the confusing mind of a very powerful man.
More like, a window into his butt.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Pretending that it's somehow equal is totally wrong. The Left utterly banished opposing opinions from the airwaves. It got so bad that conservative opinions retreated all the way to AM radio, a terrible ghetto, to be heard. I mean, come on, AM radio? It's a wonder that it still exists, and I had that thought 30 years ago. Then Murdoch started his Fox news, but what else? Prior to the rise of citizen journalism on Youtube, there was hardly anything but tame, controlled opposition which would be allowed to say something non-controversial and then refuted by the two other talking heads and the hosts.
The recent election was the tipping point, when the mask came off and the mainstream media became a partisan force, one dedicated to the cause of electing Hillary Clinton, who we now have hard proof in the form of a confession from her campaign manager, that she was utterly corrupt. The New York Times, after its completely biased coverage, said that "We believe we reported on both candidates fairly during the presidential campaign", a statement breathtaking in its nearsightedness. Here's a leaked email showing how the Dems colluded with the press. Glenn Thrush of Politico was exposed seeking Podesta's approval of articles about Clinton. Even Thrush wrote "please don't tell anyone" and "I'm such a hack". The consequences for Thrush? He was hired by the New York Times after the election. How can you have any sympathy with these organizations that threaten people into silence with threats of doxxing? It's like the mafia. So let's drop the "both sides do it" thing because the power levels are not even remotely the same.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
They're a window into the confusing mind of a very powerful man.
More like, a window into his butt.
Triggered, Ivan?
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Corporations derive their existence from the government, if the government doesn't have a right they shouldn't be able to grant that right to corporations. You're trying to apply rules from over a century ago to the modern world wherein a corporation has enormous influence over public opinion merely by controlling the userbase, don't act like you have some moral authority to do so when in fact your entire argument is deprecated.