Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

Once again! Bravo Jack and the Twitter team! Thank you taking a stand against bullying.

Now if only they would crack down on the huge wave of Chinese bullshit they allow.

They added fact-checks to two of Lijian Zhao’s tweets yesterday. Not sure if that counts as a crackdown, but it’s a high level account.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52833063

Did any of this bs you refer to come from the president of China directly?

If you truly believe in what they are doing, then buy their stock and prop up the price, because it is plunging right now. Words alone are about as useful as clapping for healthcare workers.

Is the POTUS clearly inciting violence or is it another instance of people having a wild interpretation of what he said? I'm so tired of this dynamic that I don't even bother anymore.

Now if only they'd give Kaepernick's tweet [0] equal treatment, to be even-handed.

[0] https://twitter.com/Kaepernick7/status/1266046129906552832?s...

Wouldn't call a 1 percent drop "plunging".

Regardless, stock comes back up. These are reputation points that will stay for a while.

There’s such a thing as a peaceful revolution. Portraying this as similar to the President calling for shooting people is disingenuous.

Plunging is a strong word, but this is still an excellent point. Just bought the stock for support.

Judge for yourself, the exact tweet is:

> These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!

Worth noting that this is a quote from former Miami Police Chief Walter Headley. In '67, he said the phrase "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" during racially charged protests.

> Is the POTUS clearly inciting violence or is it another instance of people having a wild interpretation of what he said?

The POTUS unambiguously quoted racist Miami police chief Walter Headley who called for violence against African Americans during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. This couldn’t be a more clear example of inciting violence.

The guy who openly called for police to rough people up in the past does not get the benefit of the doubt here.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/28/donald-trump...

You are making an assumption that the interpretation is wild.

Whether you agree with these actions or not - it doesn't bode well for Twitter.

Politicians and other organizations will work to offer up an alternative platform where they won't be censored.

These are literally the most powerful people in the world.

Ahh the beauty of the Internet, where a 16 year old kid can create a platform more powerful than the most powerful people in the world...

I don’t see Kap mentioning shooting anyone in that tweet? Either you linked the wrong one or you’re trying to paint a false equivalence.

Sure reads to me like it’s advocating for violent revolt, albeit far more eloquently. I think this is the fundamental problem: it’s all subjective.

There's the xenophobia we all know and love. Right in time to steer the conversation from looking inwards.

All they have to do is get on gab.com if they want a completely free speech platform.

Strangely Trump and his ilk haven’t jumped over to Gab yet. Perhaps because they don’t want to be associated with what actually happens to a platform that allows unrestricted free speech.

Even nonviolent protest was never intended to be peaceful. Not in they way many people would use the word “peace”, anyway.

“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a ‘more convenient season.’”

That’s MLK in his letter from a Birmingham jail. Who was completely devoted to nonviolence. Even he made abundantly clear that nonviolence does not equal a lack of pressure or tension.

One literally says that they will send military and says there will be shooting. The other doesn’t put the word violent near the word revolt at all.

Of course, everything is subjective. It all depends on how many people interpret something in a particular way. You’re not objectively wrong, but I don’t believe the majority of folks reading share your same view.

You do know that he was talking about MS13 gang members who had murdered people. People need to stop reading media spins and watch actual full un-edited footage.

EDIT: Oh look, downvote brigade has arrived.