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Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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1061 points danso | 1 comments | 29 May 20 07:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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hacker_9 ◴[29 May 20 07:39 UTC] No.23347247[source]▶
It's interesting Twitter finally started taking a stand in Trump's last year as president, I wonder if it's because they hope he'll get ousted and they won't have to deal with the backlash from him for too long. Or it's just a marketing ploy, perhaps customer count was falling.
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noobermin ◴[29 May 20 07:43 UTC] No.23347292[source]▶
I'm not trying to valorize Jack, but why is it so hard to believe they just finally feel some level of responsibility? While you should always keep an eye out for more banal motivations, at some point one can only tolerate so much.
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chroma ◴[29 May 20 08:04 UTC] No.23347469[source]▶
I agree that Jack is well-intentioned, but I think he's making a huge mistake by choosing a half measure. Twitter's current policy allows Trump to claim he's being silenced while simultaneously allowing him to get his message out to his Twitter followers. It's the worst of both worlds.

Twitter should either let him tweet whatever he wants or ban him.

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1. Traster ◴[29 May 20 08:23 UTC] No.23347597{3}[source]▶
I think what you're seeing is Twitter building a track record that will allow them to effectively ban him. Take a look at Reddit, they've been following the exact same track for /r/the_donald. They're not interested in trying to make sure Trump stays on twitter, they're just interested in creating the trail of evidence that when they do kick him off they can talk about how incredibly tolerant they were.