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Twitter Says Trump Not Immune From Getting Kicked Off (politico.com)
Twitter legal and policy chief Vijaya Gadde told Politico in an interview that President Donald Trump isn't immune from being kicked off the platform if his tweets cross a line with abusive behavior. "The social media company's rules against vitriolic tweets offer leeway for world leaders whose statements are newsworthy, but that 'is not a blanket exception for the president or anyone else,'" reports Politico. From the report: Trump regularly uses Twitter to heap abuse on his perceived enemies and at times raise the specter of violence, such as when he tweeted last year that if North Korean leaders continued with their rhetoric at the time, "they won't be around much longer!" Critics say the tweets violate Twitter's terms of service and warrant punitive action. Dorsey, who's due to testify before two congressional committees Wednesday about his company's content practices, said he receives notifications on his phone for Trump's Twitter account. But asked if he would weigh in personally to remove Trump from the platform, he declined to get into specifics.
"We have to balance it with the context that it's in," he said. "So my role is to ask questions and make sure we're being impartial, and we're upholding consistently our terms of service, including public interest." Amid controversy over Trump's tweeting back in January, Twitter posted to its corporate blog an unsigned explanation of its thinking around "world leaders" -- without calling out Trump by name. It said blocking such leaders or removing their tweets "would hide important information people should be able to see and debate." Dorsey tweeted the policy, saying "we want to share our stance."
"We have to balance it with the context that it's in," he said. "So my role is to ask questions and make sure we're being impartial, and we're upholding consistently our terms of service, including public interest." Amid controversy over Trump's tweeting back in January, Twitter posted to its corporate blog an unsigned explanation of its thinking around "world leaders" -- without calling out Trump by name. It said blocking such leaders or removing their tweets "would hide important information people should be able to see and debate." Dorsey tweeted the policy, saying "we want to share our stance."
I'm pretty sure Elon Musk is a Republican. He has donated money to the Republican party.
I'm pretty sure Elon Musk is a Republican. He has donated money to the Republican party.
He donated to Marco Rubio, but he also donated to Hillary Clinton.
Between 2003 and 2015 he donated $258,350 to Democratic candidates and $261,300 to Republicans.
It wasn't just a name. He was saying he raped children.
He did, but not on Twitter. He called Unsworth a "child rapist" in an email. The worst he said on Twitter was "pedo guy".
Also, for what it's worth, Musk later apologized.
How does Elon Musk not get kicked off for calling a guy a pedophile and a "child rapist"? What is the standard? Why isn't it being enforced?
The standard? https://help.twitter.com/en/ru...
1. No targeted harassment (i.e. repeated behavior that causes alarm/annoyance/distress). I think there have been a total of two tweets from Elon Musk in this case, so it hardly seems repeated.
2. No unwanted sexual advances. This clearly wasn't.
3. No promoting violence on the basis of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, religion, age, disability. Musk wasn't promoting violence nor was this one of the protected categories.
4. No hateful display names or profile images.
Elon Musk's tweets clearly haven't broken the Twitter rules. It should be stressed that "11001000100 think the tweets shouldn't have been made" and indeed "most people think the tweets shouldn't have been made" are both very different from "violate the standard"