Our dear chairman Donald Trump was permanently banned from his beloved social media platform, and the reaction has been a mixture of relief and humor. Scroll down to see the funniest reactions to this historic event!
Our dear chairman Donald Trump was permanently banned from his beloved social media platform, and the reaction has been a mixture of relief and humor. Scroll down to see the funniest reactions to this historic event!
Comparing Twitter banning Trump to Christian bakery and gay wedding cake is stupid. Congress never passed a bill protecting Bakers from lawsuits.
This was long expected. Trump will just move to another platform, or establish his own. He will be followed by tens of millions of “..ists” and “…phobes” and everyone who wants to hear more opinions, than what the big tech and media corporations allow. What will you leftists do in the remaining echo chambers? Who will you bash and argue with? You will eat yourselves alive!
Come where the cool kids are, the free uncensored platforms. Come to the Internet as it was before the cartel of Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter was established. Their platforms will become boring as death. Facebook already is. Youtube is going that way – it’s becoming “Cable TV on the Net”.
That Blue-MAGA douchebag’s assuming that ANYONE who objects to Twitter banning Trump is the same sort of person who normally says “private businesses should be able to do whatever they want”. This is incredibly short-sighted.
Getting rid of a buffoonish, inept authoritarian is only a good thing as long as you’re not just empowering another, more insidious, more Orwellian authoritarian…if Twitter were at all sincere in their claimed intent of protecting anyone other than their stockholders, they’d have done this back when he was threatening “FIRE and FURY” against North Korea.
By all means, laugh at the clown; but an even uglier battle lies ahead…if *anyone* is capable of making us miss Trump, it would be the original author of the USAPATRIOT ACT.
Those companies shouldn’t be allowed to exercise this kind of silencing power over people. I am using multiple adblockers to prevent Facebook etc. from putting cookies and web beacons on my computer. But come on, a platform created by Trump or the like will never be “free uncensored”.
Time to terminate their provision 230 protections.
shut up amorika you are drunk.
Goodbye freedom of speech
He can go stand on the sidewalk and yell all he wants… but no one cares.
The servers are their property. Those platforms can ban whomever they want like you can deny access to your house.
Trump has been proven to be a terrible house guest…
His freedom of speech is not denied. It’s their servers. They can ban whomever they want. As Anon said he can still get a box to stand on and yell lies and insults at pedestrians.
I don’t believe the baker/wedding cake analogy is valid
In the case of the bakery it was one small business where one could simply go a block and get a competitor to do it. That is not the case with Big Tech.
Moreover, they are making sure that you can’t go to someone else. Look at what they’re doing to Parler. They are effectively saying that if the bakery down the street doesn’t also refuse to make the cake then they’ll shut them down.
What they’re doing is akin to what the owner of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia did in 2018 when they refused to serve White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders and told Sanders and her family to leave the restaurant but then followed the Sanders group to protest as they went to another place to eat so that they would not be allowed to eat there as well.
He is free to yell, write, call, go on tv, he has the media just down the hall… he has his freedom of speech. Someone just kicked the drunk guy out of their bar. Him and his buddies were causing fights and breaking things, so he had to throw the guy out of his bar.
He violated the house rules. His reputation precedes him.
This is just going to get worse. Censorship is just the modern version of book burning. Now that big corporations, big tech, media and Gov are all acting in unison I’m fearful it’s globalisms victory over humanity. Watching the vids of people in the UK being harassed and arrested for simply being outside their homes was shocking. Not happening in the US, but they would if they could. Dystopian times for sure.
media companies controlled by few democrat families controlling what americans must think? hmm.. whats new.
usa, you are so disappointing, i seriously think even countries like russia have more pride in their state and culture. usa teaches democracy tonothers while being a secretly totalitarian country. hope us burns down!
I’m pretty sure he violated the rules several times beforehand and said some tougher shit, but sure, ban him a couple of weeks before Biden inauguration, get the karma points and positive PR as bastions of democracy. Just wonder why ya’ll didn’t have the balls to do it earlier and also, why are you selective about which leaders to ban and which not. I’m confident that in 30min I can provide a list of foreign ministers and leaders that are directly inciting violence and are still able to post, tweet, onlyfan and such, and they don’t get banned for whatever reason.
but hey, it’s fun and safe to beat someone who will in couple of days have no power to fight back, just to fall in good graces of new administration, in order to gain some favors in those ongoing anti-trust cases.
Is asking your neighbor to kill your wife also freedom of speech?
Camel’s back + straw = he had it coming.
Twitter got tired of constantly having to add disclaimers to his tweets.
Republicans – “Let the free market decide!”
(Free market decides)
Republicans – “This is outrageous!”
Twitter is a private company and not part of the government. When you go into a restaurant you see the sign: “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone…” Does that sign freak you out? Twitter has the same rights as that restaurant. Don’t want to get kicked out? Follow the rules and don’t be a jerk.
Trump still has his rights to free speech. ANY time he wants, he can call a press conference at his house and the whole world will listen. He doesn’t have to take questions either.
“we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.”
“THEY” are separate businesses that don’t want to be sued for promoting violence or to be known as a site that’s full of hate.
Trump – (Quoting Stalin. Such a great guy. ) “Fake news is the enemy of the people!”
Trump fans – “Lets go to new platforms where we can read all the fakest of fake news!”
No, that’s incitement to murder.
The only ones burning books were far-right, religious, racist nuts. In short: Trump fans. And the comparison is rediculous. He’s just denied access for violating the service owners’ rules.
No servers are burned or deleted. The messages are still on the server. Saved for law enforcement and historians.
Trump and his fans ruling the world would not be a dystopia. It would an apocalypse.
Better one Trump family controls all. You are already their pet.
“and said some tougher shit” Maybe. But those times his SA didn’t storm the capitol to |ynch lawmakers elected by sane American people.
Double standards are a rightard standard.
It must be the truth because it’s what they want to hear and it eases the pain of thinking for themselves.
So if I own an electrical power plant, i can tell the millions of people that get power from my plant that their political beliefs and words have to comply with my own or else I’ll shut off their power. Thats what this is. Try to start a business w/o the internet. Try to live, work or go to school w/o it. This is where the oligarchs are taking you. Stop being dumb. You know this.
That is the America Trump and his followers want. They don’t want to be treaded on. They want to be the ones treading on everyone else.
I don’t even have an opinion, but please start a riot or something,
because I’m bored.
Such a BS comparison.
It’s more like if the electrical company wanted to prevent you from starting a fire with their electricity.
Twitter isn’t trying to force everyone to have the same political beliefs, (saying so is crazy. They like everyone arguing online. There’d be a lot less people on there if they all agreed on everything. ) they are trying to prevent people from using their platform to promote riots, murder or insurrection. They could be sued or face charges if a crime was organized on their site. Plus, they don’t want their brand to be associated with nazis and hate speech etc etc. “We have a right to refuse service to anyone.”
What if a child molester was on twitter trying to recruit young kids to come meet him? Would ya’ll consider it censoring free speech to kick the child molester off twitter?
Nope. It’s preventing a crime from occurring. It’s preventing twitter from being sued by the parents of a child who got molested. If the molester complained ” HEY – I have a right to free speech to find kids to molest!”, you’d think he was crazy, right?
In Trump’s case, he used twitter to help start an insurrection. That’s a crime too. Several people died. Twitter doesn’t want any part of that, just like they wouldn’t want to be associated with child molesters. Dating sites keep the rapists off their sites too. Want online platforms to treat you nice? Follow the rules.
And what were the comments Trump made that violated the policy?
Right… because your opinions don’t match ours we’re taking our ball and going home. Haha children huh…
Right. You are free and still can play ball. But not with their ball. We feel sorry for you, poor victim.
Have you read them?
Oh, sorry, sorry. Yes. To understand and asnwer the question you would need reading competence. Yet your question showed you lack it.
My bad.
What? I molest women, not children. And if, she lied about her age. What people do to get molested by me. Because I molest really good. It’s the best molestation. They just want attention. From me. And others. Had a great friend helping me finding girls. Great guy. Had his own island and such. Had him killed in prison. He wanted to talk to those witch hunters. So sad. But I’m good now. I love you all. You are special.
You pretend that the internet is not as powerful as it is to make your point but you do it ONLY because the oligarchs are pushing YOUR ideology. Everyone knows that. If it was reversed you’d be whining like a lil bit&#. Go get the vaccine quick. The world needs less you.
Yes, Trump has many oligarch friends. He and his fans are the type oligarchs prefer.
They are already losing money by the millions. This shit is going to turn on you lefties. You better open your eyes to what happens to people under communism.
Go woke go broke.
Freedom of speech only applies to the laws and restrictions the government can pass, not private businesses. On top of that, there are still laws against certain kinds of speech such as libel. Before you go whining about your free speech, you should probably look up what it actually is.
I love how getting kicked out of the building for shouting racist slurs and hate speech is now considered “censoring”. What a bunch of whiny children.
Technically Rupert Murdoch owns Fox and most local stations are run by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, both of whom are pretty far right leaning. CNN and MSNBC are left leaning, but the vast majority of news sites aren’t run by “a few democrat families”. That’s just blatantly wrong.
Well technically if you own an electrical power plant, you don’t choose where your electricity gets distributed. You would typically work out with a TDSP how much you wanted per megawatt and they, in turn, would choose who to distribute it to. TDSPs are regulated as utilities by the state, so they can’t choose who they can and can’t supply with electricity. Long story short, your analogy falls flat because you didn’t do your research. Big surprise.
Simple fact is that actions have consequences. If you incite a riot, you get banned. That’s not censorship, that’s literally their terms of service. Grow up, kid.
Weren’t you the ones constantly telling us to stop being victims not even three months ago? So sad. /s
I’d call for their imprisonment and execution whether they’re literal neonazis or “antifa blm extremists”, as if such a thing existed. Doesn’t matter what “side” they’re on, they committed a crime. Jesus christ you’re stupid.
I’d take communism over fascism any day of the week without a second thought. Just saying.
Forgot the “or” in there.
It’s very telling, watching Liberals revel in their ignorance and disregard for the Constitution. Remember, the baker that refused to make the gay wedding cake was sued. In all fairness, Twitter should suffer the same fate. But Liberals actually believe that the Double Standard is part of the Bill of Rights, apparently, because they resort to it repeatedly, daily.