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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Funny thing is the media tried to smear Parlar this month with news of porn posts.
It won’t matter if you leave Shtter.
It took over a decade for the site to even turn a profit. But each of the CEOs became billionaires even when they were losing money every year.
It is a mouthpiece, not a company.
he can still revoke 230 by EO, last time I was viewing the threads.
They can block him . . . unless they are all in jail then.
[[[What’s Twatter?]]]
A meeting place for Karens.
“Biden has previously written that when he becomes president, people will not have to be concerned about his tweets.”
Thats because he will be standing in the corner with his dunce hat on and the others will be ruling...I said ruling because we havent got a nation any longer.
LOL.
Let ‘em. Their traffic and value will tank.
They will be the NFL of the internet.
I hope they crush them like the merciless wheels of a Juggernaut.
Of course not. I care as much about Twatter as it cares about me. Which is zero.
Deletion of my 2-month old account (after 15 years of saying "not interested") would be a massive nonevent.
Facebook same. Never had an account, never will. Waste of neurons.
I’m over at Parler. But it does not appear to be that user friendly to me. Trump should start his own social media. Call it Trump Space.
Nobody should be using twitter.
I find Parler much easier to use that twitter, I don’t even look at twitter any longer SCREW THEM!!!
80 million Trump followers can ban twitter come january.
Someone has to like his tweets!
I steer clear of the FB and Twitter sewers.
They’ll probably ban him and reinstate him from time to time just to generate interest in his feed if it ever dies down. He generates a lot of traffic for them.
Agreed. Do you think any of the 80 million will really delete their twitter account if President Trump’s account is deleted? I doubt many will since most are probably fake to begin with.
Just my opinion.
JoMa
I hope so.
Figures Twitter will try to “Ban” trump from tweeting..after all who is on the twitter board, but Kamala Harris’s campaign staffers..we live in a Communist Country officially
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