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Twitter Confirms They Will Be Able To Ban Trump Starting January
Daily Caller ^ | 12/15/20 | Andrew Jose

Posted on 12/15/2020 4:43:57 PM PST by Enlightened1

President Trump will lose his current world-leader-status exemptions from Twitter’s policies after Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, exposing him to stricter moderation.

Twitter has confirmed that Trump’s personal account could face restrictions or even a ban if he continues proliferating what the platform considers “conspiracy theories” after becoming a private citizen, The Independent reported. (RELATED: Benjamin Netanyahu Removes Trump From His Twitter Profile Picture)

Twitter applies unique policies to world leaders and various public officials of major importance, leaving rule-infringing content unremoved if the public has a “clear” interest in being able to access such content, according to The Verge.

After noon, January 20, however, Trump will be ineligible for this protection and will have to follow the same guidelines as regular citizens, a Twitter spokesperson told Forbes on Thursday.

The spokesperson—speaking to Forbes on the condition of anonymity—stated that Twitter doesn’t have “special rules” for Trump, and refused to discuss or confirm any internal deliberations about the aftermath of banning Trump after he leaves the White House.

Having nearly 88.6 million followers, Trump ranks among Twitter’s top accounts, just under ex-president Obama, who boasts 125 million followers, the Independent reports.

Taking a jab at the outgoing president’s frequent use of the social media platform, incoming President-Elect Biden has previously written that when he becomes president, people will not have to be concerned about his tweets.

Censoring Trump after the coming inauguration would not be Twitter’s first act in content-restriction. In October, a month before the election, Twitter blocked the New York Post’s account after they refused to delete a tweet linking to a controversial story about Hunter Biden, Fox News reported.

Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was among a group of GOP leaders who described the censorship as ‘election interference,’ according to New York Times.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ban; censorship; deplatformtwitter; dumptrump; internet; january; officialitsacult; potus; presidenttrump; realitysettingin; rinossettingin; traitorssettingin; trollssettingin; trumpfirst; trumptwitter; twitter
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To: Enlightened1

Hey Twitter, didn’t use you except for our President but see ya, enjoy your college kids who want everyone else to pay their bills!


121 posted on 12/16/2020 8:55:36 AM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking. )
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To: Enlightened1

I hope they do ban him, because I am only on Twitter for Trump and I want to leave.


122 posted on 12/16/2020 9:25:24 AM PST by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation. )
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To: OttawaFreeper

Yes he needs to just say now that he’s moving to Parler. Twitter would fold like a house of cards


123 posted on 12/16/2020 9:30:56 AM PST by southernindymom ( )
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To: a fool in paradise

Funny thing is the media tried to smear Parlar this month with news of porn posts.


That means they are starting to feel the exodus.


124 posted on 12/16/2020 9:34:44 AM PST by joegoeny ("Nuts!")
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To: OttawaFreeper

Parler needs to immediately user-proof their 2-step; and robust their interior / exterior search returns.


125 posted on 12/16/2020 9:42:26 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: Enlightened1

When does it become treason? Seems like well beyond that.


126 posted on 12/16/2020 9:51:16 AM PST by Blogger (Prayers for our President, First Lady and Republic.)
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To: Enlightened1
OK by me...Leave Twitter to the twits... It and Facebook etc. are living proof of Mencken's Theorem (I have conferred theorem status on his famous observation.)--

“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” [Sept. 19, 1926; Chicago Daily Tribune]

127 posted on 12/16/2020 10:04:55 AM PST by PerConPat (A politician is an animal that can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground--Mencken )
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To: Enlightened1
If one 'twits' on Twitter, what does one do on Parler?


128 posted on 12/16/2020 10:07:59 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: Pearfect

Why would anyone be on any of these follow me sites?


129 posted on 12/16/2020 10:13:11 AM PST by animal172 (This ain't the country I grew up in.)
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To: Enlightened1

If there is a Biden presidency and President Trump announces an intent to run in the future, I’d suggest he’s still a world leader. Certainly more so than, say, Stacy Abrams who has only served in the state legislature.


130 posted on 12/16/2020 10:46:31 AM PST by SJackson (We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns. Joseph Stalin)
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To: Enlightened1

These freakin people are unbelievable! Ef Twitter!


131 posted on 12/16/2020 11:00:12 AM PST by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a p£peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: Enlightened1

Twitter Confirms They Will Be Able To Ban Trump Starting January>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

It will be a first. They will be banning a cash cow that made them millions.

I’ll believe it when i see it.


132 posted on 12/16/2020 11:07:47 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: Enlightened1

On that day I will quit Twitter


133 posted on 12/16/2020 11:20:17 AM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT (Ec 1:2 The rest is, Vanity of vanities..vanity of vanities!All is vanity.)
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To: Enlightened1
Twitter will ban President Trump, a cash cow that has made them millions?

I'll believe it when I see it:


134 posted on 12/16/2020 11:42:47 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: coloradan

Parler has a more restrictive code of conduct


135 posted on 12/16/2020 11:50:53 AM PST by redgolum (If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian )
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To: Pearfect

I could care less about where it leans because the quality is crap. Every other site allows editing of comments, whereas Twitter doesn’t, just post it and delete it.


136 posted on 12/16/2020 12:09:05 PM PST by Morpheus2009 (If you want me to be afraid, then be consistent in your logic, standards, and your lies!)
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To: Morpheus2009

Yank CCP twitter’ed Jack around by his long beard.


137 posted on 12/16/2020 12:14:11 PM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny )
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To: Enlightened1

I bet Dorsey goes full Toobin at the thought.


138 posted on 12/16/2020 12:32:18 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Vision

..........that’s one of my main News sources.....reading Trump’s tweets. Seriously and Rudy’s and other trusted associate’s tweets.


139 posted on 12/16/2020 12:42:57 PM PST by SoCalConserv ( )
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To: frogjerk

The foul digusting Twitter trolls are moving over to Parler already


140 posted on 12/16/2020 1:08:27 PM PST by KTM rider (No enforcement of election laws is an attractive nuisance for communists)
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