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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Twitter is basically just radicalized homosexuals and rage feminists (male and female), so it wouldn’t be that big of a deal to get kicked off.
TWTR closed today at $54.04.
I never do shorts, but . . .
You do options then? I want to learn! Any books, etc you can recommend!
Parler is great. You just have to learn how to use it.
Twitter was on its way to extinction before 2016 and Pres. Trump.
All right .
Do we need more proofs , evidences , of biased elections
Can we all say big lawsuit...?
Trump will have Parler and Rumble accounts by late December 2020.
Twitter was almost dead in 2015. Trump made them relevant again. Their fastest route to irrelevancy and bankruptcy is to ban Trump.
And that’s with half of Biden’s followers being from China
I had the same problem: I was unable to sign up for Parler.
who wants to be on Shitter? why does anyone want to be there?
“I’m over at Parler. But it does not appear to be that user friendly to me. ....”
I can’t even figure out how to get on Parler.
They will be lucky if Trump doesn’t ban Twitter...
I’ve tried Parlor and its OK, I’m sure it will get better but I’ve deleted my Twitter account. So that’s what needs to happen, in mass.
They can ban him now if they want to. The only “barrier” is their own rules. Just change the rules. Done deal.
Twitter confirms that millions of people worldwide will drop them and go to Parler and Gab.
That makes sense, since Biden is obviously not the one tweeting on his account.
I sure hope Parler.com is adding on an awful lot of server capacity.
I hope they do ban him that way he can go to parler and take a few million people with him.
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