Why Twitter permanently banned Trump

[Allan]

Interesting article in the New York Times this morning looking at the decision to cut Trump off. It wasn't so much what Trump was posting, it was his followers reaction to those posts. There are a variety of opinions on whether Trump was intentionally inciting violence but what Twitter saw was that his supporters believed he was encouraging to act aggressively.

Twitter monitored the response to Mr. Trump’s tweets across the internet, and executives briefed Mr. Dorsey that Mr. Trump’s followers had seized on his latest messages to call for more violence. In one post on the alternative social networking site Parler, members of Twitter’s safety team saw a Trump fan urge militias to stop President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. from entering the White House and to fight anyone who tried to halt them. The potential for more real-world unrest, they said, was too high.

It's clear Trump played a clever game - a dog whistle his followers would interpret as he wished and enough vagueness to his actual Tweets that he could deny incitement if things got out of hand.

The article also goes into the misgivings Jack Dorsey had about the suspension and eventual ban.

 

[trouble13]

Everyone knows why they banned him. It isnt a flattering look for Progressives but that is an albatros they are gonna have to learn with. Trying to rationalize it away and convince people they are not who they are isnt going to work.

 

[Showtime586]

I believe that Twitter did the prudent thing given the circumstances. I also believe that they were a tad bit late in doing it.

 

[Allan]

Everyone knows why they banned him. It isnt a flattering look for Progressives but that is an albatros they are gonna have to learn with. Trying to rationalize it away and convince people they are not who they are isnt going to work.

The thing is that people around here (you know who you are) are focusing on his exact words on January 6th as proof of innocent intent. But it wasn't just the 6th, it was weeks of dog whistles to his supporters riling them up. It was the fact that he knew, or should of known, that his rhetoric could be dangerous. It is the fact that results matter, that the buck stops with him, that the outcome of his words was insurrection.

 

[RaleBulgarian]

Everyone knows why they banned him. It isnt a flattering look for Progressives but that is an albatros they are gonna have to learn with. Trying to rationalize it away and convince people they are not who they are isnt going to work.

You don’t know what “everyone knows”.

Trump’s special status as president is the only reason he wasn’t banned sooner.

 

[Showtime586]

You don’t know what “everyone knows”.

Trump’s special status as president is the only reason he wasn’t banned sooner.

Exactly. His status as president afforded Trump a lot of cover and privilege that he will soon be losing.

 

[Jezcoe]

Twitter did Trump a huge favor by banning him. It gives him no chance to tweet something idiotic and counterfactual that would lead to more violence.

 

[X Factor]

Everyone knows why they banned him. It isnt a flattering look for Progressives but that is an albatros they are gonna have to learn with. Trying to rationalize it away and convince people they are not who they are isnt going to work.

Welcome to Biden’s America, where left wingers will let you know what right wingers really meant.

 

[X Factor]

Interesting article in the New York Times this morning looking at the decision to cut Trump off. It wasn't so much what Trump was posting, it was his followers reaction to those posts. There are a variety of opinions on whether Trump was intentionally inciting violence but what Twitter saw was that his supporters believed he was encouraging to act aggressively.



It's clear Trump played a clever game - a dog whistle his followers would interpret as he wished and enough vagueness to his actual Tweets that he could deny incitement if things got out of hand.

The article also goes into the misgivings Jack Dorsey had about the suspension and eventual ban.

So Trump was banned from Twitter for something he didn’t say on a site that wasn’t even Twitter?

 

[Allan]

So Trump was banned from Twitter for something he didn’t say on a site that wasn’t even Twitter?

No, he was banned because Twitter saw that his rhetoric and instigation were taken seriously by his more extreme supporters. Trump would have known the effect his words were having, and he carried on ramping up the temperature.

 

[X Factor]

No, he was banned because Twitter saw that his rhetoric and instigation were taken seriously by his more extreme supporters. Trump would have known the effect his words were having, and he carried on ramping up the temperature.

You’re having to do a ton of assuming. Let me ask you if you feel anything said by politicians contributed to the violence that occurred at protests last year?

 

[Allan]

You’re having to do a ton of assuming.

I'm simply working backward from the outcome and making the obvious connections.

Let me ask you if you feel anything said by politicians contributed to the violence that occurred at protests last year?

Give me an example of rhetoric that inspired violence last year.

 

[JMB802]

I find the Trump fan's continued nitpicking about his actual words to be fascinating. You might be able to console yourself about supporting Trump by using logical fallacies. But it will never change the actions taken by people on 1/6 on Trump's behalf and behest. Or bring back the lives of the dead.