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    Animats ◴[] No.23347437[source]
    Twitter policy:

    "We start from a position of assuming that people do not intend to violate our Rules. Unless a violation is so egregious that we must immediately suspend an account, we first try to educate people about our Rules and give them a chance to correct their behavior. We show the violator the offending Tweet(s), explain which Rule was broken, and require them to remove the content before they can Tweet again. If someone repeatedly violates our Rules then our enforcement actions become stronger. This includes requiring violators to remove the Tweet(s) and taking additional actions like verifying account ownership and/or temporarily limiting their ability to Tweet for a set period of time. If someone continues to violate Rules beyond that point then their account may be permanently suspended."

    Somewhere a counter was just incremented. It's going to be amusing if Twitter management simply lets the automated system do its thing. At some point, after warnings, the standard 48-hour suspension will trigger. Twitter management can simply simply say "it is our policy not to comment on enforcement actions".

    They've suspended the accounts of prominent people many times before.[1]

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_suspensions

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    1. _ZeD_ ◴[] No.23350687[source]
    following the wikipedia article I found

    https://www.avclub.com/twitter-releases-statement-confirming...

    "Twitter releases statement confirming it'll never ban Donald Trump"

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    2. javajosh ◴[] No.23350742[source]
    Maybe. But there's probably a business model out there this is simply a Twitter clone that waits for the Trump account to move there, and bang, instant success.
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    3. seesawtron ◴[] No.23350797[source]
    Even Jack Dorsey's account was suspended in 2016 mistakenly.
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    4. Tenoke ◴[] No.23350801[source]
    There is and they (Gab) get an okay number of likes on every one of his posts promoting it. [0] Also Facebook is now well positioned to be his next platform if he moves off twitter.

    0. https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1266347307391488002

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    5. hypersoar ◴[] No.23351423[source]
    The headline is misleading. The "statement" is a Twitter thread, and it doesn't say anything about banning or not banning everybody. The body of the article concedes that it only "heavily implies" they'll never ban him. And that was three years ago. Some stuff has happened since then.
    6. dehrmann ◴[] No.23352113[source]
    Since Twitter and Trump seem intent on getting into a pissing match (Trump a bit more so), what's the worst each side could do?
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    7. hn_check ◴[] No.23352651{3}[source]
    Trump isn't moving to Facebook, regardless of Zuck's attempt to pandering to his childish outbursts. Twitter is precisely suited to Trump's micro-tantrum thoughts, where Facebook is orthogonal. I would argue that the brevity of Twitter, and the adversarial nature of it, made Trump and the imbecile-right (e.g. not conservative -- it's a bunch of flag wavers who have close to zero political lean of knowledge...they just want to hate).

    P.S. I know this comment is auto-dead, and that's okay.

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    8. clint ◴[] No.23352708[source]
    As was Donald Trump's in 2017 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/02...
    9. techntoke ◴[] No.23352721[source]
    Twitter could block him and Trump could continue to sell out America to foreign interests.
    10. bambataa ◴[] No.23355215{4}[source]
    Out of all the social networks, isn't Facebook the one that has the most Trump supporters? Twitter is notorious for being full of the woke left. Most people only find out about Trump's tweets because they get reported somewhere. Facebook is nowadays the preserve of older moms and pops.
    11. hoppla ◴[] No.23359219[source]
    Or mastadon! Whitehouse could have its own server, and would not need to worry about sensorship