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Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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1061 points danso | 2 comments | 29 May 20 07:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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knowaveragejoe ◴[29 May 20 07:41 UTC] No.23347257[source]▶
Good, and frankly they should have been doing this sort of thing sooner.
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osobo ◴[29 May 20 09:32 UTC] No.23348014[source]▶
I'm guessing they had been holding back until the campaigning season started. Now they get maximum impact.
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1. klyrs ◴[29 May 20 15:28 UTC] No.23351091[source]▶
His feed has been getting worse recently, and the publicity of his misbehavior has been escalating. Maybe he's acting out more because it's an election year. Bit of a chicken/egg issue that I wouldn't want to get stuck defending either side.

But the fact of the matter is that the Citizens United ruling grants private corporations the right to free speech. He can continue to use Twitter, but they've literally got the right to campaign against him, editorialize, shadowban, or straight up ban him. He could choose to follow the site's rules, or run off to Gab. But he's doing it for attention and his tantrums and Twitter's non-enforcement actions are getting him a lot of that.

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2. tathougies ◴[29 May 20 17:30 UTC] No.23352892[source]▶
Citizens united foes not grant private corporations anything. Their freedom to say what they like was determined to already have existed. Citizens united just stops lower courts from enforcing any law that violates this freedom.

The government does not grant rights