im sure the several dozens of people who aren't following him but also need to read his every tweet will be devastated.

>twitter doing sketchy partisan shit, restricting access to the literal president's tweets

the clowns reply with 'boohoo' and downplay it.

This post was edited by cambovenzi on Jun 27 2019 10:21am

less people will see Trump call Warren Pocahontas for the 48 thousandth time but all his regular Maga style tweets will be left alone because they aren't violating the rules by personally attacking individuals and inciting harassment of them

boo hoo

Agreed. Frankly it's kind of pathetic that Twitter hasn't banned Trump already for all of the conduct violations. Banish him to white supremacist twitter.

yes we all know you are perpetually offended that trump mocked someone for pretending to be a native american for personal gain and status. How dare he. please will someone censor him?


insulting people is not against the rules. Posting negatively about someone is not against the rules and is not inciting harassment.

'boo hoo'

I can respect that you've always been genuinely hostile to free expression and never held it as an ideal. That's not something rooted in opposition to Trump or his movement.
Its one of those weird things where being a civil libertarian used to align me against you as a democrat and now against you as a republican.

They aren't even removing his tweets they are spreading rule violating personal attacks and the like less

@ bold that's at the discretion of the company offering the platform and reasonable people can see how what Trump does when he gets butt hurt on twitter is a no brainer for a violation

and once again all they are doing is spreading his personal attacks to fewer people, they are still there

No problem with this move at all

maybe if these people got less exposure, instead of more as a result of this activity, we'd see a right winged twitter emerge.

but, alas, they get more and more followers and more and more attention. so they stay. so that people can act like this is doomsday, and give them more follows.

meanwhile the robots continues to be assembled, quicker and quicker it comes together as the underbelly of unrest grows. you'll see, you'll all see.

I stand against the libertarian establishment which controls both parties, that's true.

This post was edited by IceMage on Jun 27 2019 10:52am

Social media companies have long since realized that they can exploit their monopolies to suppress people with incremental and algorithmic censorship far more effectively than direct bans
If Trump and every Trump supporter were banned from Twitter, they'd hard break and prop up an alternative platform.
But keep slicing away by rigging search results, hiding comments, inserting labels, restricting features- and they can hope to drain their energy and exposure and silence them more than direct censorship could accomplish.
Its those dramatic bans and direct intervention that give people something to rally against. Steve Huffman directly edits comments critical of him and gets caught? A big shitstorm emerges.
Not the case for gradually ramping up the censorship pressure. There might be short term hostility, but what happens when T_D is still quarantined in a week from now? A month? Six months?

Its guerrilla tactics. Either someone will decide enough is enough and lead an anti-censorship crusade, like Trump with direct regulatory intervention, or the incremental and algorithmic rigging will add up