Posted on 04/26/2021 12:25:04 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Twitter said it would not take action on a tweet posted by basketball player LeBron James targeting a Columbus police officer who fatally shot an knife-wielding assailant attacking an unidentified woman in Columbus, Ohio last week. The company claims its hands are tied because James deleted his tweet before the company could decide if it broke the rules.
“YOU’RE NEXT, #ACCOUNTABILITY” tweeted James last week, along with a picture of the police officer’s face, after news of the shooting emerged.
Video footage later revealed that the police officer took a split-second decision to discharge his firearm, as the assailant, 16-year old Ma’Khia Bryant, was about to stab another young black woman with a knife.
The basketball player later deleted the tweet following backlash and mockery from other users of the social media platform.
The Arizona Republican Party went so far as to say that James’ tweet constituted a threat against an officer of the law, and that he should be arrested.
“He’s worth in excess of $500 MILLION courtesy of our economic system, our so-called “racist” society, and some talent playing a GAME. Yet LeBron James, is free to THREATEN an officer of the law. He should be arrested, not excused,” said the Arizona GOP.
Twitter, however, will impose no consequences on the basketball player. The social media company said that as James deleted the tweet, it could no longer take action on the matter.
“Our teams are unable to evaluate Tweets that have been deleted since they no longer exist on our service,” a Twitter representative told the Washington Examiner.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
LeBum Your Next
No, that would be racis’ if they did that. Sheesh! See, jack dorkee does care about black folks.
LeBron James on the NBA losing Trump as a viewer: ‘We could care less’
“I wish Barack Obama was still President”- LeBron James takes swipe at Donald Trump
“I wish Barack Obama was still President”- LeBron James takes swipe at Donald Trump
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His wish came true.
Actually, I think we would all be better off if Twitter were killed.
Yes, I know, freedom of speech and all that.
However, Twitter does not protect freedom of speech. People are “doxed”, officially reprimanded and even fired for exercising their “freedom of speech” via Twitter. And in some places in some countries Twitter comments may cause someone to be charged with a crime, a thought crime popularly known as a “hate crime”.
And the most frequently seen characteristic of much of initial Twitter posts/comments is merely as a venue for expressing comments using extreme hyperbole, extreme innuendo, extreme incitement of sentiments, and comments that either are or nearly are defamatory comments.
Then we have the total misuse of Twiiter numbers, presented by everyone who comments about Twitter, pretending that if most of the comments in a certain thread on Twitter tend in one direction, that that is an important trend, when even at their most extreme any “most” comments on a Twitter feed never represent any “most” number of Twitter users altogether. In most cases, in most Twitter threads the actual number of comments, no matter their direction do represent a total of THE MOST Twitter users, with a de facto “no comment”. Yet Twitter numbers roll off the tongues of “reporters” and everyone else as big “news” - which it never is.
In everything about politics and politicians, I feel towards Twitter as I do about celebrities - they should have to pay for and take out an ad, otherwise shut up.
This is just the benevolent dictator side of me talking.
Apparently, LeBron James has the IQ of a doughnut! He is not very smart. The statements he makes make people chringe.
LeBron LeBron.......ya just can’t zip it up can ya.......
LJ, the classic angry black man despite his wealth earned because he is particularly good at putting a round ball through a round hoop...he is full on black 24-7-365...I think he is angry because he is black...
That’s an insult!
To doughnuts, that is.
For context, heres their twisted reasoning for banning trump for 2 specific tweets:
“On January 8, 2021, President Donald J. Trump Tweeted:
“The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”
Shortly thereafter, the President Tweeted:
“To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”
Due to the ongoing tensions in the United States, and an uptick in the global conversation in regards to the people who violently stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, these two Tweets must be read in the context of broader events in the country and the ways in which the President’s statements can be mobilized by different audiences, including to incite violence, as well as in the context of the pattern of behavior from this account in recent weeks. After assessing the language in these Tweets against our Glorification of Violence policy, we have determined that these Tweets are in violation of the Glorification of Violence Policy and the user @realDonaldTrump should be immediately permanently suspended from the service.
Assessment
We assessed the two Tweets referenced above under our Glorification of Violence policy, which aims to prevent the glorification of violence that could inspire others to replicate violent acts and determined that they were highly likely to encourage and inspire people to replicate the criminal acts that took place at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.”
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension.html
And here is their glorification of violence policy:
You may not threaten violence against an individual or a group of people. We also prohibit the glorification of violence.
Glorifying violent acts could inspire others to take part in similar acts of violence. Additionally, glorifying violent events where people were targeted on the basis of their protected characteristics (including: race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease) could incite or lead to further violence motivated by hatred and intolerance. For these reasons, we have a policy against content that glorifies acts of violence in a way that may inspire others to replicate those violent acts and cause real offline harm, or events where members of a protected group were the primary targets or victims.
What is in violation of this policy?
Under this policy, you can’t glorify, celebrate, praise or condone violent crimes, violent events where people were targeted because of their membership in a protected group, or the perpetrators of such acts. We define glorification to include praising, celebrating, or condoning statements, such as “I’m glad this happened”, “This person is my hero”, “I wish more people did things like this”, or “I hope this inspires others to act”.
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/glorification-of-violence
Of course they won’t. Free speech for me - not for thee
So do the leftists, especially the TV news ones, know that we know that they know they are hypocrites and lying bigots against the Right?
Someone retweets to Glenn Beck or Michael Savage or President Trump and they go to social media jail. An implication of slight harshness gets them banned. But their genius LeBron and BLM stay on like a lasting nail fungus? Phooey.
And we are supposed to just accept that they discriminate against us in every way and laugh in our faces about it?
Lucky for them we are peace loving, law abiding good citizens.
We are, aren’t we?
So a racist threatening violence against law enforcement is OK, but an elected official criticizing his enemies gets him banned.
Time to break up Twitter.
So then, the trick is to post conservative on Twitter, leave it up a few hours, then delete. There ought to be massive tweets on the massive 2020 vote fraud.
He ain’t no Larry Bird.
““Our teams are unable to evaluate Tweets that have been deleted since they no longer exist on our service,” a Twitter representative told the Washington Examiner.”
Yeah right.
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