Shock And Glee: Twitter’s Ban of US President Donald Trump Evokes Shadow of Orwellian Corporate Dictatorship

• Shock And Glee: Twitter’s Ban of US President Donald Trump Evokes Shadow of Orwellian Corporate Dictatorship
  by https://www.rt.com/
  While Democrats and the online #Resistance rejoiced in Twitter’s decision to permanently ban US President Donald Trump, his yet un-purged supporters, independent journalists and even critics worried the step went too far.
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  Within minutes of Friday evening’s announcement that Trump would be “permanently suspended” because his tweets expressing support for his voters and refusal to attend Joe Biden’s inauguration “could be interpreted” as inciting and glorifying violence, ‘THANK YOU TWITTER’ and #TrumpBanned became the top trending topics in the US.
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  A number of people from across the political spectrum, however – from Trump supporters the platform still hasn’t gotten around to purge, to Conservatism Inc. critics, left-leaning journalists and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden – saw the ban as a cause for concern.
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  “The usual brain-addled hysterics of course love this,”said independent journalist Michael Tracey, calling Twitter’s justification “total bullshit.”
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The justification about the risk of further "violence" is total bullshit. This was a political calculation, and a capitulation to hysterical babies. If you are cheering it, you are an authoritarian dupe with the foresight of a fruit fly

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) January 9, 2021

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