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Comment by _ZeD_

5 years ago

following the wikipedia article I found

https://www.avclub.com/twitter-releases-statement-confirming...

"Twitter releases statement confirming it'll never ban Donald Trump"

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hypersoar  5 years ago

The headline is misleading. The "statement" is a Twitter thread, and it doesn't say anything about banning or not banning everybody. The body of the article concedes that it only "heavily implies" they'll never ban him. And that was three years ago. Some stuff has happened since then.

javajosh  5 years ago

Maybe. But there's probably a business model out there this is simply a Twitter clone that waits for the Trump account to move there, and bang, instant success.

  • Tenoke  5 years ago

    There is and they (Gab) get an okay number of likes on every one of his posts promoting it. [0] Also Facebook is now well positioned to be his next platform if he moves off twitter.

    0. https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1266347307391488002

    • hn_check  5 years ago

      Trump isn't moving to Facebook, regardless of Zuck's attempt to pandering to his childish outbursts. Twitter is precisely suited to Trump's micro-tantrum thoughts, where Facebook is orthogonal. I would argue that the brevity of Twitter, and the adversarial nature of it, made Trump and the imbecile-right (e.g. not conservative -- it's a bunch of flag wavers who have close to zero political lean of knowledge...they just want to hate).

      P.S. I know this comment is auto-dead, and that's okay.

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  • hoppla  5 years ago

    Or mastadon! Whitehouse could have its own server, and would not need to worry about sensorship

  • hn_check  5 years ago

    Gab has been the theoretical right-wing Twitter for years. It wallows in mediocrity.

    Trump and his cult are on twitter to try to bask in the legitimacy. If they're on their own, the raw charade of how childish and imbecilic their noise is becomes too obvious.

    It's also a bit hilarious given that Gab, created because of crybabies like Trump and Scott Adams, has hilariously restrictive policies, just as The_Donald is one of the most snowflake-moderated subs on Reddit. The right really can't stand each other.

dehrmann  5 years ago

Since Twitter and Trump seem intent on getting into a pissing match (Trump a bit more so), what's the worst each side could do?

  • techntoke  5 years ago

    Twitter could block him and Trump could continue to sell out America to foreign interests.