Twitter Hides POTUS Tweet

[Kornheiser]

Can’t we just see what happens instead of everyone losing their god damned minds over everything? I’ll believe it when I see it so wake me up when it happens because I don’t see it happening anytime soon.

 

[Dang Woodchucks!]

If they repeal Section 230 of the CDA I will close this site the same day and none of you will hear from me again.

Dew it.

Question, would another 'western' civilization, like say the UK, be an inferior but still stable replacement for some of these sites to move to?

LMFAO

I found where that fucker lives!!!

Spoiler

President Donald J. Trump
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC, 20500

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I already contacted the White House, called him a retard, and told him he's acting like I expect Biden to. Now I can drive by and call him a faggot personally, too.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

It's funny how the same people who were talking about how the government wants to have lockdown to take away our freedoms and it's bad to set precedence are all okay with this shit.

That isn't an "apples to apples" comparison. Twitter being inconsistent, selective, and deceptive regarding its own policies isn't similar to a government instituting an economy-devastating lockdown. Even then, most people in this thread aren't, strictly speaking, "all okay with this shit". There are only those that are arguing that it likely won't end up as bad as it initially seems, for various reasons.

 

[Lurker]

highposting, but after reading the EFF's summation of the law, i think Trump might find it quite difficult to do what he wants. if section 230 of the communications decency act is repealed, not only would it affect people like jack dorsey and josh, but it would affect the ISPs. and i think that's where the problem lies.

i mean this sort of thing would really hurt their businesses, if they're personally held liable for the things other people say or do on their service.

edit: this is going to end up how the UK did when they tried to ban porn. i'm not saying this is a nothingburger, but i'm just saying that this might not be as easy for Trump to enforce.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

That isn't an "apples to apples" comparison. Twitter being inconsistent, selective, and deceptive regarding its own policies isn't similar to a government instituting an economy-devastating lockdown. Even then, most people in this thread aren't, strictly speaking, "all okay with this shit". There are only those that are arguing that it likely won't end up as bad as it initially seems, for various reasons.

Seems to me you are okay with setting the precedence of the government telling a company how to run itself. Hypocrite

 

[Mr. Giggles]

If Trump's intention is to ultimately repeal Section 230 due to Shitter's cucked moderation team, then it will be the equivalent of using the fucking Tsar Bomba to take care of a cockroach infestation. It'll wipe out everything except for the cockroaches. Same goes for the democrats like Biden, Warren, and O' Rourke wanting to repeal 230 because "muh misinformation".

If Trump is bluffing all along and is only threatening to repeal 230 to get Shitter's cucked moderation team to piss their pants and stand down, then both Trump and Twitter with then have to face the woke left who would likely rain autistic hellfire on Jack for succumbing to ORANGE MAN's threats, and, unfortunately, nothing's more effective in making Big Tech do what you want then someone pulling the racist/sexist/alt-right card because that's bad for business. Either that, or they'll simply call his bluff and nothing will change.

This is just retarded. Twitter has a lot of problems with how they're bowing down to the demands of the woke MSM, but threatening to kill off a very important part of internet law, empty threats or not, is fucking ridiculous.

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And yes I do know that nukes don't kill cockroaches.

 

[Ivan Shatov]

what is your point? I don't want to go and protest with niggers they smell bad

Black people don't seem to be involved in burning the city, @Bloat Supremacist. As far as I can tell - BLM, Antifa, Trump were all on the same page this time.

Vandals bad, protestors good.

But there are some people who would really like you to believe everything is fucked.

9 letters, starts with a C, ends with a T, and Trump just sanctioned the living shit out of one of the countries they currently occupy.

 

[Kacho]

Do you think this would be a good time to sell off my Chinese stocks?

You should have been selling them in January.

 

[AnOminous]

The EO is going to put the fear of god (emperah) into soy valley social media. You are going to see them at least play at being good bois. Maybe that's all Trump is going for, getting them to quake in their onsies so hard they spill their soylent, and don't pull public opinion fuckfuck games.

More like it gives them something to posture about like they're the tank dude at Tiananmen Square (even though it is their users who will suffer). Now they can stand up to Orange Man Bad and virtue signal for the only audience they really care about, the troons and soy boys and simps.

If Trump is bluffing all along and is only threatening to repeal 230 to get Shitter's cucked moderation team to piss their pants and stand down, then both Trump and Twitter with then have to face the woke left who would likely rain autistic hellfire on Jack for succumbing to ORANGE MAN's threats, and, unfortunately, nothing's more effective in making Big Tech do what you want then someone pulling the racist/sexist/alt-right card because that's bad for business.

For a supposed negotiation genius he's a fucking pure moron. Also Art of the Deal was ghostwritten you fucking morons.

He's left Twitter with no option to make a deal with him because now any compromise at all will mean they're bowing to Nazis.

Even my shitpost option would be better. Declare a state of emergency, seize Twitter, and cancel all their bullshit moderation of him. He'd lose the court case but the whole thing would be fucking hilarious.

 

[GethN7]

Had a little more time to think this over, and this seems to be the prevailing extremes of opinion.

Worst Case: Trump will turn the internet into a powder keg of lawsuits and fucked up laws trying to regulate information age tech with baby boomer level understanding.

Best Case: Social media gets it's feet held to the legal fire if they decide to play favorites and are forced to choose to remain neutral or be liable for playing favorites.

Now, I doubt, at least in the short-term, we'll see best or worst occur, this situation is barely a day or so old. Long-term, I'm not sure we'll get the ideal or Armageddon, and until I get a better idea where we are headed, I believe it prudent to wait and see before looking for the sky to fall.

I'll reevaluate things then.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

Can’t we just see what happens instead of everyone losing their god damned minds over everything? I’ll believe it when I see it so wake me up when it happens because I don’t see it happening anytime soon.

No, because this is official, unequivocal proof that Trump is bad and all his supporters are mindless lemmings.

Seems to me you are okay with setting the precedence of the government telling a company how to run itself. Hypocrite

The government already and constantly tells companies how to run themselves, in various degrees. It's called "regulations". Or are environmental regulations bad now?

Also, I've never once stated or even implied that I'm against regulations in general, as you seem to be implying here. Your appeal to hypocrisy fails.

Edit: wait, are you serious comparing governments forcing businesses to close over "muh coronavirus" to Trump going after Twitter for being inconsistent in its application of its own terms of service?

 

[Bloat Supremacist]

Black people don't seem to be involved in burning the city, @Bloat Supremacist. As far as I can tell - BLM, Antifa, Trump were all on the same page this time.

Vandals bad, protestors good.

But there are some people who would really like you to believe everything is fucked.

9 letters, starts with a C, ends with a T, and Trump just sanctioned the living shit out of one of the countries they currently occupy.

they don't have to set anything alight to reek of shit

 

[Pina Colada]

I'm also 50/50 on this being a legitimate threat to free speech, or just another presidential shitpost; while we should be alert and sending our concerns to the White House (already did!), there's no reason to scream "THE SKY IS FALLING!" until something develops over the weekend or on Monday. It's clear that Trump has his hang-ups when tweeting not unlike the very people we mock on this lovely forum, but for all we know, it's not a priority at the moment when we're living in a plague and Ferguson 2.0 is happening. Then again, I'm an optimistic poster who's cautiously optimistic about protecting 230 (which I've read that and the EO).

Worst case scenario the Farms does shut down, I will never forget the laughter, the lolcows, the Halals, looney troons, and the shitposts that brings us all together in times like these.

 

[AnOminous]

Best Case: Social media gets it's feet held to the legal fire if they decide to play favorites and are forced to choose to remain neutral or be liable for playing favorites.

They couldn't remain neutral, though. Any time a lawsuit threat came in, they'd have to delete whatever it was. The only "neutral" would be nuking everyone.

Also this would mean you could sue them every time Trump tweeted. Don't even bother suing Trump, just sue Twitter. Every single time. You think they wouldn't?

 

[Kornheiser]

More like it gives them something to posture about like they're the tank dude at Tiananmen Square (even though it is their users who will suffer). Now they can stand up to Orange Man Bad and virtue signal for the only audience they really care about, the troons and soy boys and simps.

How is their any profit with them? They are broke as shit and don’t buy anything. Is it that tech gets off on trannies sucking an aids dick that protects them?

 

[Not Really Here]

Seems to me you are okay with setting the precedence of the government telling a company how to run itself. Hypocrite

It's not a precedent, the government tells everyone how to do everything all the time, and expecting a public benefit for them being exempt to most US law is just sane.

 

[Tomboy Respecter]

This thread is why you shouldn't take any faggot on the internet seriously. It's full of mentally unhinged, autistic doomposters and rosy-eyed optimists. I have seen only like a handful of level-headed posts and it sure wasn't from the faggots screaming at Orange man or sucking his cock. For fuck's sake, this site likes to talk a big game about lolcows, but most of the userbase is are already there.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

They couldn't remain neutral, though. Any time a lawsuit threat came in, they'd have to delete whatever it was. The only "neutral" would be nuking everyone.

The only winning move is to call everyone a faggot.

 

[Gustav Schuchardt]

The EO is not the goal in and of itself.

Trump's got a long tradition of tweeting things which are a very inaccurate summary of what the eventual policy ends up being. Some of this is because he gets blocked by the courts or on Congress. Some of this is because he probably didn't want to do it and was just tweeting what he did to get support. E.g. 'Build a wall' or 'Lock her up!'. The former he can make a pretty good case he was blocked, the latter I don't think he had any intention of doing because locking up your opponents for corruption sets a bad precedent. Actually, come to think of it IIRC with The Wall he didn't try and do it when the GOP had both houses, only when they'd lost one so maybe he didn't actually mean that literally either.

My point is that you should probably see how this turns out rather than rm -rf /'ing the server and fleeing to the Arctic.

I mean it's your server and you're free to nuke it if you want but I'd miss this place. Wait a bit, see how this falls out. It's bound to get challenged in court, attacked in House and there'll be a massive pushback online.

 

[Crankenstein]

If they repeal Section 230 of the CDA I will close this site the same day and none of you will hear from me again.

I could be wrong; and am but a small brain, but my understanding is the aim isn't to repeal 230 but to get better wording in regards to what makes a publisher versus a forum as a way to keep Twitter and similar sites from being able to put the kabash on what they consider wrong think.

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Understood.