Twitter Permanently Suspends President Trump’s Account
January 8th, 2021Update: Google Suspends Parler Social Networking App from Play Store; Apple Gives 24-Hour Warning
Via: Reuters:
Alphabet Inc’s Google on Friday suspended the Parler social networking service from its app store, citing posts inciting violence and demanding “robust” content moderation from the app favored by many supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Update: Twitter Has Now Shut Down @POTUS
Via: ZeroHedge:
At 8:29pm ET, Trump – having been suspended from his personal twitter account – decided to use the official twitter account of the US president, @POTUS, saying that “Twitter employees have coordinated with the Democrats and the Radical Left in removing my accounts from their platform to silence me – and YOU, the 75,000,000 great patriots who voted for me.” Trump then said that “Twitter may be a private company, but without the government’s gift of Section 230 they would not exist for long.”
Trump, who has yet to create his own Parler account, continued: “We have been negotiating with various other sites, and will have a big announcement soon, while we also look at the possibilities of building out our own platform in the near future.”
“We will not be SILENCED! Twitter is not about FREE SPEECH. They are all about promoting a Radical Left platform where some of the most vicious people in the world are allowed to speak freely” the president boomed.
He concluded with an all caps “STAY TUNED!”
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Update: Last Two Tweets Before Account Suspended
Via: Trump Twitter Archive:
Donald J. Trump
@realdonaldtrump
To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.
Jan 8th 2021 – 10:44:28 AM EST
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Donald J. Trump
@realdonaldtrump
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!!!
Jan 8th 2021 – 9:46:38 AM EST
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Via: Reuters:
Twitter Inc said on Friday that it has permanently suspended U.S. President Donald Trump’s account due to the risk of further incitement of violence following the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday by hundreds of his supporters.
“After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” the company said in a tweet.
