Loser Trump is no longer useful to Twitter, entire account deleted over fears he'll whip up more mayhem
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2021/01/09/twitter_deletes_trump_tweets/
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"After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence," the biz said in a [1]blog post .
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The official Twitter account of whoever is President of the United States, @POTUS, remains active, and is due to be handed to President-elect Joe Biden once he is inaugurated on January 20. The Register understands Twitter will take a dim view of someone (cough, cough, Donald) using that particular handle in the meantime to circumvent today's ban. Twitter will also ban any new accounts created by tweet-addict Trump.
Earlier this week, following the [3]deadly intrusion into the US Capitol by armed pro-Trump rioters – egged on by the President and bent on derailing the confirmation of Biden's election win – Twitter [4]suspended Trump's account. The President was told he could regain access following the removal of three rule-violating tweets and a 12-hour cooling off-period.
Trump deleted the tweets as required, and access was restored, but it didn't last long. On Friday, the President tweeted:
The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!
That was followed by:
To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.
Twitter said it made clear on Wednesday that further rule violations would not be tolerated. And the biz, headed by Jack Dorsey, has concluded that these two tweets, in the context of the ransacking of the Capitol this week, run afoul of its rules. The fact that Trump's virtually out of power and no longer worth the hassle may have also factored into that decision, we suspect.
"After assessing the language in these Tweets against our [5]Glorification of Violence policy , we have determined that these Tweets are in violation of the Glorification of Violence Policy and the user @realDonaldTrump should be immediately permanently suspended from the service," the microblogging platform explained.
Facebook and Instagram also [6]cracked down on Trump this week, locking his accounts "indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.
And Reddit has [7]banned the DonaldTrump sub-reddit.
Maybe in future we need to work out a way to not hand control over the dangerous and inciting remarks of public figures to companies with huge financial incentives to let them carry on making them. — James Ball (@jamesrbuk) [8]January 8, 2021
Meanwhile Apple has issued an ultimatum to Parler, the social media site beloved by Trumpistas. Cupertino has [9]reportedly given the Parler team 24 hours to clean up its site of calls for violence and rebellion before its app is pulled from Apple's App Store. Given the amount of material on there, the Parler team faces a miserable weekend if it's to hit the deadline. Google has [10]simply kicked Parler out of the Android store.
On Monday, US Representatives Jamie Raskin, Ted Lieu, and David Cicilline are [11]expected to introduce articles of impeachment to remove President Trump from office for inciting the mob that breached the Capitol.
The US House of Representatives took similar action in December 2019. Despite the House's approval of the impeachment charges, the US Senate voted 52 to 48 in favor of acquittal. Sixty-seven Senate votes are required for a conviction.
In 11 days, whether or not this second impeachment attempt succeeds, Trump will no longer be the US President. ®
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PS: Trump associates General Flynn and Sidney Powell have also had their Twitter accounts suspended.
Get our [13]Tech Resources
[1] https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension.html
[2] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_personal_tech/front&sz=300x250%7C300x252%7C300x600&tile=3&c=33X-k4ZeCygmxTvopABaKmkQAAAAA&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[3] https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/us/capitol-mob-deaths/index.html
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/07/social_media_trump/
[5] https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/glorification-of-violence
[6] https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/01/07/facebook-trump-instagram-social-media-accounts-block-indefinitely-zuckerberg/6580221002/
[7] https://www.axios.com/reddit-bans-rdonaldtrump-subreddit-ff1da2de-37ab-49cf-afbd-2012f806959e.html
[8] https://twitter.com/jamesrbuk/status/1347693586037559297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[9] https://www.inputmag.com/culture/exclusive-email-from-apple-tells-parler-it-has-24-hours-to-clean-house-or-be-removed
[10] https://twitter.com/viaCristiano/status/1347705178699558912?s=20
[11] https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1347638288820142080?s=20
[12] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_personal_tech/front&sz=300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251&tile=4&c=44X-k4ZeCygmxTvopABaKmkQAAAAA&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[13] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: An elephant in the room
Yeah, that was a dumbass move... She should've known better.
Re: An elephant in the room
Yet the article doesn't state the outcome of that discussion.
Does he still have the access to still up shit?
Re: An elephant in the room
Does he still have the access to still up shit?
Twitter? No.
Push the red button? Well the briefcase has to be nearby and he has access to the "biscuit". So, yeah. He still can launch the nukes.
When it comes to Donald, there is a very, very fine line between " going down fighting " vs " going down fighting AND taking everyone else with me ". I think I am more afraid of the latter.
Re: An elephant in the room
You're forgetting: whatever else Trump is, he's also a massive coward.
That's why his most recent tweets are all positively designed to be read out in court when he's charged with sedition.
Pressing "the Button" would no doubt be fun, but it would also expose him personally to considerable danger. He's not going to do that.
Re: An elephant in the room
Yes, he still has access. The military said they will ignore any unlawful orders from the President, and then inform him of lawful options, same stance as previous.
Re: An elephant in the room
More Pelosi riding high looking for her pound fo flesh.
Watch things fall into a black hole.
Re: An elephant in the room
More Pelosi riding high looking for her pound fo flesh
Whatever (negative) opinion you have on Nancy, you can thank Donald for it: The more Donald acts the way he is now, the more he makes Nancy look like a better option.
However you look at this
It feels like Twitter et al have too much power.
As the tweet in the article states, it suited them to have him tweeting for so long. Now they shut down his voice. Is that right?
Much of the The sensationalist mainstream media and social media have become a scourge on our society. I hope they are reigned in, somehow.
Re: However you look at this
I was amused that the tweet that led to them banning him for inciting violence said, "We have to have peace. So go home."
We're entering very dark times indeed
A dark winter, if you will.
Personally, I hope that Pence gets his way and everyone just waits things out. That way the Republicans will have to deal with Trump taking away a large swathe of the GOP's cash cows when he forms his own party, or dealing with Trump controlling the GOP from within. Either way, it will cost them for the near future, and possibly the not-so-near future.
I hope that this is the wake-up call for the GOP to do a wee purge and force out of the ranks the rightest part of their right wings, and goes back to being a centrist based conservative party. The look of fascism is not a good look, Republicans Don't be the reason that 'history repeats itself'.
Splittist!
Remember Nader in 2000? I'm so happy Trump says he'll fight on...
Clearly, Trump is going to retire to Florida, surround himself with some sort of "shadow cabinet", and spend the next four years reminding everyone how he won really but was ousted by a deep state coup. So he'll attack everything the government does and remind everyone how much better he'd do it.
Much like Obama's two terms, really.
Goin' down fightin'
If only Donald had demonstrated this sort of "determination" with his personal business, he may have been a very good businessman.
By the way, I like how a lot of (embarrassed) Americans like to spin this soap opera around with " this is how democracy works ".
This current state of American politics are making a lot of countries look very, very good.
Let's take this one step further
How about we deny ALL politicians access to social media?
It's even-handed, and Joe Public's social feeds will contain a lot less bullshit*. Everyone wins.
* Bullshit, as we all know, is what happens when a politician of any colour opens their mouth.
Re: Let's take this one step further
Sure. Although I'd ban journalists first - from reading, let alone posting.
(Even the El Reg journalists. While they're lovely people doing a wonderful job it would be hypocrisy to allow favourites to break the rules.)
At least Trump has finally conceded
In his last tweet ever he said he would not be going to the inauguration.
Never /dev/null...
...because that device file is actually vital to functionality of your system.
While I can see the Sisyphean Justice an every minute cron job something like: "cat Trump >> /dev/null && cp /dev/null /dev/null" I could not in good conscience run such commands on a server, even if I didn't like the owners because they were evil bastards.
Instead I would recommend something like setting /tmp to be cleared on reboot and then run
# mv Trump /tmp/not_tmp_enough
# sync
# rm -rf /tmp/not_tmp_enough
# sync
# fstrim -a -v
# btrfs scrub start /tmp
# shutdown -r now
I would only do this if there were no way to replace the server. Even then I would never trust it again.
Tweeted by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
It's amusing that his last ever tweet, from the Potus account, was "We will not be silenced" - only for that tweet to be deleted!
The WSJ called for him to resign so it's unlikely he'll be given the same access to Fox News, which he'd already started dissing. Lets hope he starts vandalising Wikipedia pages to help run down the clock peacefully. Top golfers should challenge him to games to distract the spoiled child.
An elephant in the room
[1]Speaker Pelosi called military chief about Trump's access to nuclear launch codes
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/speaker-pelosi-called-military-chief-about-unhinged-trump-s-access-n1253501