Pretty unclear what your point in general here is, let alone what it has to do with what I said? You don't think anyone has left Twitter in the last 4 years in disgust over the fact they let Trump flaunt their TOS while spewing vitriol? I certainly did. You don't have to follow Trump's Twitter feed to be aware of what it contains. The mistake you make is deciding that conservatives and the Trump cultists the same group. There are tens of millions of conservatives who dislike Trump and absolutely hate the crap he spews on Twitter. They like his conservative policies and don't like the opposition to the extent they still vote for him, but it's a pretty massive and in my view incorrect assumption that they also like his Twitter feed, or really like him opening his mouth much at all. They're not mad Twitter banned him, they're either neutral or downright glad. And then there is the fact that a huge chunk of the demographic that supports Trump is old enough that they will never use Twitter. So you're left with a chunk of a few million hard core Trump supporters who think storming the capitol and people dying for a lie about massive voter fraud is OK and are also Twitter users. Twitter made a simple business decision that they had very little to gain by coddling this group because there are few advertisers who want to sell to them, and far more to lose from a much bigger and more lucrative chunk of their user base who would be furious if they were coddled. It was an imminently reasonable least bad choice given the options available to them.
I don't really care what the mob thought they would be able to accomplish and it's irrelevant. Its pointy headed pedantry to pretend you don't grasp that attacking legislators in session to count electoral votes has a greater impact on the future of our nation than shooting fireworks at a federal building or stealing shoes. Again, doubling down on acting like you don't grasp the obvious just reflects poorly on you. Speaking of obtuse...What Maxine Waters, who imo should be kicked out of the Senate along with those who voted to overthrow the electoral results, said on CNN has jack to do with if she violated Twitters TOS and should be banned from Twitter. Which is what we're talking about here. Whataboutism is transparent even in the best of circumstances, but seriously were you even trying here?
I see Magna must have taken the day off. This is still in the stock forum why again? All this thread needs is @Buy1Sell2 and @Here4money. (both of who have VZ on super ignore btw... quite the badge of honor if I do say so myself. Gotta love being hated by "both sides") Anyway, Twitter dropped another 2.4% today. Politics aside though, and I wrote this 2 years ago: as clicks go, I'm pretty sure Trump was the best thing that ever happened to Twitter. He put it on the map for a a lot of folks that would have otherwise never once clicked on it. Myself included. Then I saw it's beauty. I think I also wrote, last summer, it's a great long term hold. It's not going away. Edit... here: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/thre...-it-will-go-up-this-week.347908/#post-5162437 It had hit $29 or so. Edit 2.... and before anyone jumps on me for calling Snap a dog in that thread and now calling it my top 2021 pick (for now), note that later in that thread I was all ears to the OP and why he liked it. See... not being tunnel-visioned in one's beliefs and keeping one's mind open to other's opinions, ie "Listening". It works. Its profitable. Applies to this thread too. Lots of good points made. "On both sides".
I highly doubt people left Twitter over Trump. Have you actually used Twitter? You can block any person you want on Twitter and will never see any tweet from them, ever. And more likely they would be following other people who also hate Trump and would enjoy listening to hatred of the man. I suspect Twitter internally felt pressure to silence voices who employees disagreed with. There is probably some truth to that. I've been critical on here of some of the stuff Trump has said in the past. I just wish the media was as harsh on the Dems as they were on conservatives. They want to silence Trump and prevent him from possibly re-emerging in 2024. If you try to kill your enemy, but fail, you'll never sleep well at night knowing that he'll eventually come for you. Agree with you that it was a business decision.
Now Twitter is getting stupid. 1. What the fuck is Open Internet? The Internet by it's very nature, is open, like the OSA of the PC. Hello? 2. Internet shutdowns do not violate "basic human rights". People are not born with a right to the Internet. Holy fuck, what the hell am I reading? Twitter's policy has just been updated by some 25 YO that knows nothing about life! Yet, meanwhile, Twitter as a company has the right to refuse service to anyone it deems breaking the rules of their TOS. The irony is so thick. OI!
Lmao Twitter just went full retard with that. https://notthebee.com/article/i-hon...st-tweeted-this-but-twitter-just-tweeted-this
If you still had Twitter, I would point you to @Andy Ngo's Twitter feed who did a great job documenting all the people charged with very serious crimes last summer in Portland, some related to attacking the Federal courthouse. Most were let go. The Portland DA announced a policy (before the riots) of letting people charged with rioting (no joke) and other crimes off the hook. https://www.kptv.com/news/multnomah...cle_0289b146-dbff-11ea-aee8-5f1693753950.html I disagree with what happened in DC last weekend. I don't like mobs and violence. I also don't like double-standards. What happened during the 2017 inauguration was also particularly violent and one could make the claim that many there also wanted to overthrow government: https://sub.media/video/trouble-16-conspiracy-to-riot-trailer/ But media gave that much more favorable coverage than the demonstrators at the capitol. It's about double-standards. Twitter and the media treat conservatives differently than everyone else and certainly the Dems. Here's another example: Pelosi, speaker of the House, claimed a few years ago that "Our election was highjacked." $40 million and 3.5 year investigation found no wrongdoing. Where's the Twitter "This election claim has been disputed" warning on that Tweet?