Posted on 09/04/2018 1:40:15 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A Twitter official said Tuesday that President Trump does not have a "blanket exception" from a possible ban by the social media platform.
The company’s legal and policy chief Vijaya Gadde told Politico that while the company has often given Trump an exception for possible policy violations because of the newsworthiness of his tweets, there is “not a blanket exception for the president or anyone else.”
0 The company has come under fire from Trump critics for not punishing the president for specific use of the platform. Trump often uses his account to launch personal attacks on political opponents, criticize the media and, on occasion, announce major policy or personnel decisions.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told Politico that his team considers “context” and “public interest” when evaluating tweets from Trump and others, echoing his past explanation for why the company has not punished the president.
"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."
Twitter has defended its decision to not delete some of Trump’s tweets in the past, saying that the tweets are newsworthy. Last year, Trump used his Twitter to threaten North Korea, which some speculated could be considered a declaration of war and a violation of Twitter’s policy.
The company said in January that blocking world leaders from Twitter would “hide important information people should be able to see and debate.”
Dorsey is set to testify to two congressional committees this week amid a number of controversies over how the company handles political content.
Conservatives, including Trump, have accused the platform of, among other things, intentionally “shadow-banning” conservative voices. The company has acknowledged a glitch that muted some conservatives in search results, but said it also impacted some progressives and is being addressed.
Mark my words they’ll temp ban him 2 weeks before the election.
They wouldn’t dare. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
If Trump goes, there goes Twitter. The institutionals might not give a damn. But how about the small nvestors? And the SEC..
Go ahead Twitter, ban him. That would be the most entertaining for me, and counterproductive for them thing I can ever imagine.
Does Dick’s care? Levis? Nike? Hmmm, what do those companies have in common...?
That competitor? If they have stock, that would be the time to go ALL IN
That's how it works -- Twitter can ban anyone it wants, but the President (or any other Twitter user) can't block anyone from his feed. That's what's known as Net Neutrality. Oh, and you fuddie-duddies, you shut yhour mouths about "freedom of speech", the debate is over.
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The alternative is already there. It's called Gab. Gab would explode in membership the minute Twitter dumped Trump. And tones of people would dump Twitter.
I can see Twitter banning him prior to the election to shut off his unfiltered access to the American people.
“Banning him would guarantee a successful competitor within days.”
and a serious effort to regulate social media as public utilities subject to anti-discrimination and fairness rules ...
If Trump is banned, Vijaya Gadde and others wwill be dead within 24 hours or as oon as they can be located.
I would like to see them ban Trump from Twitter just to see what happens ... maybe something .. or maybe nothing.
Gab is great. I wonder why they haven't released a smartphone app yet.
Quidado!!!!
I wish they’d do it.
Gab has 185000 users... they can’t handle 60 million ...especially when no one will rent them server space or process credit cards for them
and twitter is not exempt from being banned (boycotted) by every sane american.
Contact everyone twitter does business with and tell them you wont use their services of buy their products as long as they support un-american censors and propagandists like twitter....
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