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Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”

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1061 points danso | 4 comments | 29 May 20 07:24 UTC | HN request time: 1.283s | source
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lenwood ◴[29 May 20 16:00 UTC] No.23351578[source]▶
Trump seems to think Twitter is a public service within his domain, rather than a private company with its own agenda & governance. I'm glad Twitter is responding to him, I respect them for the position they're taking.

In addition to his executive order [1], Trump has threatened to delete his Twitter account [2].

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-to-sign-executive-order-t...

[2]: https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/video/twitter-flags-trumps-t...

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1. koheripbal ◴[29 May 20 16:10 UTC] No.23351755[source]▶
Can you cite an alternative platform similar to twitter?
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2. ViViDboarder ◴[29 May 20 17:19 UTC] No.23352729[source]▶
Mastodon is quite similar. Also, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Medium, Blogger, etc. will all let you post content to a group of follower.
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3. koheripbal ◴[29 May 20 20:03 UTC] No.23354832[source]▶
I don't think any of those are the same at all. That's like banning someone from using a refrigerator and telling him he can use picnic coolers instead.

These monopolies have their niche.

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4. ViViDboarder ◴[30 May 20 00:07 UTC] No.23357135{3}[source]▶
Facebook is far from a “picnic cooler”.