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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: 0.001s | source
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darkerside ◴[29 May 20 13:01 UTC] No.23349412[source]▶
As President, or any public figure, you are responsible not only for the intention of your words, but also every feasible interpretation of your words, as well as the impacts of your words, regardless of intention.

I say this not to imply that Trump didn't know that this statement could be taken in multiple ways, but to remind people that even if it can it doesn't matter. It's tragic this has happened, and also tragic to have a leader who reacts to the situation in this way, and that a large swath of the country applauds him for it.

Vague and menacing threats are much more thuggish behavior than emotional reaction to the killing of an unarmed civilian.

As for what Twitter is doing, I'm curious whether they follow this path to it's logical conclusion, which is, eventually Trump being banned from Twitter. He's a huge driver of traffic for them, but perhaps they're thinking about life after Trump at this point, months away from the election.

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mc32 ◴[29 May 20 13:05 UTC] No.23349449[source]▶
Every feasible interpretation? No way. That’s not gonna work. No one would be able to say anything. At best people would talk like ex Fed chair Greenspan. Undoable.
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freen ◴[29 May 20 13:16 UTC] No.23349597[source]▶
Please point me to something Obama said that could be interpreted as inciting deadly vigilante violence.

I’ll wait.

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dmix ◴[29 May 20 13:37 UTC] No.23349826{3}[source]▶
Why is that the metric?
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pvaldes ◴[29 May 20 16:34 UTC] No.23352116{4}[source]▶
Comparing the current president with their predecessor in charge does not seem unreasonable.
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1. dmix ◴[29 May 20 18:04 UTC] No.23353397{5}[source]▶
I'd rather the systems of thought control be built on logic and values, some greater purpose, rather than some line drawn in the sand based on some American partisan signal. But I guess this whole thing will forever be political.
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2. darkerside ◴[30 May 20 09:28 UTC] No.23359775[source]▶
I don't think that was a political line. It was a line between this president and all past presidents regardless of political party.

The logic/value in this case is, speak clearly and own your words. For example, if many people think you implied a subset of the population should be shot, you may have misspoken and should clarify it, not get mad at them, dismiss them, or even worse, double down.