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1 hour ago, Nelly-Torres said:

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He will sign an executive order now because of the fact check. https://news.sky.com/story/president-trump-to-sign-executive-order-on-social-media-companies-11995995

 

The president said: "Republicans feel that social media platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen."

 

 

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An executive order doing what though? 

 

He's making some powerful enemies here, the tech oligarchs don't fuck about, I don't think even the cowboy boots and oil brigade in the Republican party fully grasp the fact the world is changing around them when it comes to who's got the money, power and influence in the 21st Century. 

 

One of the reasons Trump has gone increasingly bonkers in that role is that, in many ways, it's the first time in his life he can't do exactly what he wants. Since the day he popped out he's got his own way, flexing his financial muscles to get what he wants, bully and cajole. As President he can't do that for the first time. Even his executive orders usually end up being watered down or overturned by the courts. He'd be far happier being the Crown Prince of Uganda or some shit. 

 

Being fucked around by Twitter might just tip him over the edge. Already he can't hold his rallies because of social distancing and is convinced the media is against him, Twitter was all he had. He's going to explode. 

 

I thought it was canny that Biden said recently he wouldn't pardon Trump if he became President too, which has also raised the stakes. IMO that's the main reason Trump wants to hold onto the role, the immunity aspect, I don't think he's bothered about most of the rest. 

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18 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Whats Obamagate? 

When asked about it at a press conferecne shortly after tweeting the word, Donald Trump said:

 

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Obamagate! It’s been going on for a long time. It’s been going on since before I even got elected … Some terrible things happened, and it should never be allowed to happen in our country again … and I wish you’d write honestly about it but unfortunately you choose not to do so.

 

I think that's self explanatory. 

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1 hour ago, Captain Turdseye said:


That is the million dollar question.

 

https://theconversation.com/how-to-understand-obamagate-donald-trumps-latest-conspiracy-theory-138987


So it doesn’t have to be a conspiracy theory to be a conspiracy theory, but it is a conspiracy theory.

 

QAnon is an Evertonian. Someone well connected, with money to burn, and capable of internet anonymity. Clearly QAnon is Usmanov. Lock him up! Lock him up!

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I thought about it and may be with Trump on the Twitter thing.

Why should a privately owned platform have the right or an obligation to fact check posts? This would be like Dave reading all the posts on here and then spending his day fact checking what was said in them. If they want to edit, they should have legal protections removed and be held accountable for user created content.

 

If the president of the US wants to make an ass of himself on Twitter or Facebook, he should be allowed to do so, it's up to other agencies and media to react, not the platform itself.

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2 minutes ago, SasaS said:

I thought about it and may be with Trump on the Twitter thing.

Why should a privately owned platform have the right or an obligation to fact check posts? This would be like Dave reading all the posts on here and then spending his day fact checking what was said in them. If they want to edit, they should have legal protections removed and be held accountable for user created content.

 

If the president of the US wants to make an ass of himself on Twitter or Facebook, he should be allowed to do so, it's up to other agencies and media to react, not the platform itself.

I think there’s a slight difference between us jamboks posting shite on here and the President of the USA using a platform to lie and potentially incite violence.  But it should be applied equally.  They don’t do the same to the Chinese government for example. 
 

imagine being the poor bastard who has to wake Trump this morning.  Some serious games of Rock Paper Scissors going on soon. 

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4 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

I think there’s a slight difference between us jamboks posting shite on here and the President of the USA using a platform to lie and potentially incite violence.  But it should be applied equally.  They don’t do the same to the Chinese government for example. 
 

imagine being the poor bastard who has to wake Trump this morning.  Some serious games of Rock Paper Scissors going on soon. 

But the problem is not the part "using the platform", the problem is the part "the President of the USA lie and potentially incite violence". It is not up to Twitter to act on this, for me, it would be like a sound system provider switching off Trump at a press conference because he was inciting violence. 

 

And the earlier fact checked tweet was an opinion, so fact checking was rather pointless.

 

I think this is stupid from Twitter, it will just add fuel to accusations biggest social media are "against them" and infringe on everyone's freedom of speech for the sake of fucking with Trump.

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