He could walk into the press room, which is in the building he lives and works, and he'd have the attention of hundreds of millions of people on the technology known as television.
Twitter gave him enormous leway, but speech that includes incitement of violence is not in bounds on free speech and a private platform, with clear terms of service is under no obligation to allow behaviour that violates it. It is not a public utility, just because it is popular. It is an iron clad guarantee it will only get worse and people will die.
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They're seeking moderation based on violent rhetoric and planning, not based on political ideology. It's not that Parler supports Trump, it's that Parler is being complicit in the planning of attacks on the inauguration.
I mean I don't think we should have an issue if Apple and Google banned ISISFacebook too if their users were organizing attacks without moderation.
Shouldn’t you have to be a named terrorist organization before ISPs take action? It does bring up a whole discussion of how right wing terrorism organizations aren’t labeled as terrorists but I’m not sure ISPs/Facebook/Apple/Google should be the ones with the authority to declare who is and isn’t a terrorist.
####ing loser, I love it. Biggest loser in the whole wide world. Giant loser.
Something that would really bring me out of this pandemic mood slump would be the joy of running into Trump somewhere, calling him a giant loser, and just laughing at him like green shirt guy as he slumped away. It'll never happen, but I can dream. And hope someone else does it to him, every day.
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Does anyone think that a new Trump-branded platform (Social Media, cable TV) will be a success? Remember Trump Steaks, Airlines, Vodka, University, etc.?
Does anyone think that a new Trump-branded platform (Social Media, cable TV) will be a success? Remember Trump Steaks, Airlines, Vodka, University, etc.?
Unfortunately, yes, it probably will. He easily has more than 50M fanatics globally who would register out of adoration, and then consider how many more would register just to watch (and report on) the train wreck.
Does anyone think that a new Trump-branded platform (Social Media, cable TV) will be a success? Remember Trump Steaks, Airlines, Vodka, University, etc.?
I suspect it might be at first but he is such a stupid egocentric cheap twat he will insist its basically just him shouting at clouds and when he isnt in power that will got old pretty quickly
does anyone think that a new trump-branded platform (social media, cable tv) will be a success? Remember trump steaks, airlines, vodka, university, etc.?
Gotta wonder how they haven’t invoked the 25th yet or introduced articles of impeachment . The guy is deemed unfit to be trusted issuing social media, how on earth is he fit to hold office?
I for one welcome this ####### having reduced mindshare. Sick of this post truth nonsense
Trumps new social media platform will be the same as everything else he does. It’s a scam, a grift, a pyramid scheme etc. Once he’s squeezed every last drop from his cult, he’ll cut ties and quit.
Anyone honestly think he’s gonna create something of value?
Spotify found it worthwhile to pay Joe Rogan $100 million to sign his podcast, and some consider that a dramatic underpayment. How much would just a Trump podcast be worth? Him doing some sort of regular subscription broadcast and going on tour with rallies would likely be by far his most successful legitimate business venture ever.
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Gotta wonder how they haven’t invoked the 25th yet or introduced articles of impeachment . The guy is deemed unfit to be trusted issuing social media, how on earth is he fit to hold office?
I for one welcome this ####### having reduced mindshare. Sick of this post truth nonsense
The 25th needs an approval from VP Pence and so far he hasn't said he would.
Something that would really bring me out of this pandemic mood slump would be the joy of running into Trump somewhere, calling him a giant loser, and just laughing at him like green shirt guy as he slumped away. It'll never happen, but I can dream. And hope someone else does it to him, every day.
It's possible to make that happen, it'll take some logistic luck to get to the right place but all you have to do is commit a crime in NY and hope you get locked up in the same place
Spotify found it worthwhile to pay Joe Rogan $100 million to sign his podcast, and some consider that a dramatic underpayment. How much would just a Trump podcast be worth? Him doing some sort of regular subscription broadcast and going on tour with rallies would likely be by far his most successful legitimate business venture ever.
A: That's a really low bar to clear.
B: I'm not sure Trump has that kind of drawing power longterm. I mean I'm sure he has some but eventually god willing Donald Trump will be old news.
At any time, Trump could call up any network and get an hour of free airtime.
To go on about Big Tech and concern for democracy is a bit precious right now. I’m only pissed off they didn’t do it 6 weeks ago.
The difference is for the last few months news shows have been live fact checking him or just cutting away from him if he starts getting to ridiculous.
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Something that would really bring me out of this pandemic mood slump would be the joy of running into Trump somewhere, calling him a giant loser, and just laughing at him like green shirt guy as he slumped away. It'll never happen, but I can dream. And hope someone else does it to him, every day.
I mean, I may have the opportunity to do this. I'll start a GoFundMe for those who want to contribute.
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Probably the more concerning one is Apple and Google banning Parler via the AppStore. Controlling what people put on their devices based on political ideaology is pretty dangerous monopolistic behaviour.
You can still sideload apps on Android, can't you?
Trump isn't going to create his own Twitter or TV network, we know he's terrible at actually building anything. He'll just license his name to Parler or Newsmax/OANN, which is how he's made most of his money anyway. I mean we see the losers he surrounds himself with, doing Trump Twitter from scratch is costly and likely to end poorly. Much easier to just slap your name on something someone else did (and of course it's remarkably on brand for Trump).
I also think, with Rush Limbaugh all but dead, that Trump is the natural successor there and that's an easy job for Trump. Ramble and engage with his cult for three hours a day, golf and #### porn skanks the rest of the day, make $75 million a year. He doesn't even have to leave Mar-A-Lago to do it.
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Easiest is to break out Facebook from Instagram and WhatsApp and whatever all the other things they own now are.
But yeah for Twitter what do you do? Just split it into a bunch of different companies that do the same thing? TwitterA-F, TwitterG-S, TwitterT-Z?
Yes, just like they did with telecom. Created the baby Bells. Each doing the exact same thing based on territory: Southwest Bell, PacBell, NYNEX, Bell Atlantic, Ameritech, US West etc.
It absolutely is alarming that big tech is so powerful. Even if you think banning bad people and apps is good today, how can it not be obvious that such power ALWAYS leads to abuse.
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