The president later in the day lashed out against the company for the first-of-its-kind intervention on his social media feed,online that Twitter “is now interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election” and “completely stifling FREE SPEECH.”
Facebook, Twitter and other high-profile titans of the tech industry have come under bipartisan criticism by congressional lawmakers in recent years for their use of Americans’ personal data. Additionally, Democrats accuse the social media platforms of insufficiently countering the spread of misinformation, while Republicans charge that the companies disproportionately seek to silence conservative opinions.
Public-interest groups and civil liberties advocates say there is no clear evidence that tech companies suppress conservative viewpoints.
This sounds straight out of my new Trump dystopia novel America 2034, which begins with him stealing 2020 election by claiming voter fraud. In this 38 second video he shuts down our free media!TyrantTrump, America2034, TrumpTyranny, TrumpVirus
He’s the Antichrist
Finally the whole country can see what a liar Trump is and how he hurts people by vicious lying and Bullying by calling them names making fun of there disabilities WHO DIES THAT our PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES!!!!!!!!
Conservative expression = Lies.
Twitter did not censor him, did not silence him, did not keep him from speaking (even though Trump violates Twitter’s rules). Twitter merely pointed out that Trump is lying. TrumpLiesEveryTimeHeSpeaks
How ridiculous, his name is synonymous with the word rhetoric.
The freedom to lie vs the freedom to fact check.....mmmm
U can’t have it both ways. Sorry.
The irony here is so thick you couldn’t cut it with a chainsaw.
So Trump is now trying to say that Republicans can't get a fair shake on social media. Bullshit. It's called SOCIAL media. Available to everyone. He shuts it down (won't) and an entire nation will be pissed they can't get on their social media that we live on.
Maybe if conservatives told the factual truth and not cherry picked BS, lies and conspiracy theories, they'd be fine?
conservative expression and lying are not or at least should not be the same thing
No, Donny, social media does not thwart “conservative expression” and, in fact, welcomes such if done appropriately. But your constant lying, stating mis-truths, promoting hatred and racism, and inciting violence is just plain wrong — regardless of platform.
Dear Politico: Could you please point out the obvious: Trump has neither the power nor the means to shut down Twitter or Facebook. They are private companies. THAT should be your headline!
I want to see Trump do this. Fcking do it! What.....your not going to do it. Exactly! Twitter is daring you...WEEELLLLLL? 🤣🤣🤣🤣, you're not going to do a Goddamn thing. And, if you do shut down Twitter, WE WILL NEVER HAVE TO READ ABOUT YOU OR YOUR LIES EVER AGAIN. BOOOOOM!!
I feel like i am watching a prequel to the handmaids tale and the birth ot Gilead 😳
“Conservative expression” = LIES 🤣🤣🤣🤣
TakeTrumpOffTwitter
My late, Republican Dad favored Capitalism and a government that left private industry to run itself in peace with minimum, necessary regulation by local, state and the Federal government. Is the Republican Party taking lessons from China now?
Mr. Trump was a Democratic only a few short years ago.
😂😂😂😂 This clown loves claiming power he doesn’t have and refuses to use the power he does have.
Doesn’t he have a job to do? The one he was elected for?
Let the liar threaten
TrumpIsANationalDisgrace VoteTrumpOut
Social media is stronger than Trump.
FactCheckTrump
He thinks he is dictator. GOP have let this happen. Now he and Jared want to set the priorities of the whole osrtyy
You have it all wrong again doofus. It's not the tech giants that are against conservative expression. It's every normal thinking American, who knows who the real enemy of this county is, that wants that.
This not North Korea you not a dictator
If Tweeter doesn't close Trump's account he will close Tweeter. They better make the move first CancelTrump
Conservatives don’t want “free expression.” They want total propaganda.
He can’t
Trump hates everyone and everything that doesn't go along with his bullshit.
Do it!!
He has absolutely zero power to do so.
If he attempts to,then widespread civil unrest must become the norm. It is the only way to bring down his tyrannical government.
45! You will be jailed soon enough
These are no longer unbiased vehicles for sharing information and opinion any longer. They edit and decide what information to accept or not accept. They are media organizations and should be regulated as such
I’ll take it if that means he is cancelled too.
trump always plays the victim- victims aren't leaders.
realDonaldTrump stop telling lies...problem solved!
Anyone who isnt horrified by trumps threat to shut down private enterprises because he disagrees with how they conduct their business is not an American
Did I wake up in China?
Yes, because open forums where people can express themselves freely are a threat to narcissistic despot wannabes. They should only be used by you to blame anything and anyone while you do nothing with deadly results.
Wednesday: Empty threat from president. Must be 8:58 am. Carry on. 🙄
He can't do f... all! last time I checked America was not a dictatorship! Double dare him!
We need freedom to lie!!!!!!
There is a huge difference between conservative expression and lies. Conservative expression comes from a life experience, his lies are just baseless and he is finally being fact checked.
His argument is free speech so he is going to gag a private company devoted to free speech?
He thinks he is a dictator
Dictators speak & behave the way realDonaldTrump does, like his mentor Putin. We know well the ruthless tyrants around the world, we know this is not what a POTUS does. If we allow it we lose democracy & freedom. Destroying the rule of law brings tyranny - happening now.
Twitter should threaten to shut him down.... He is the one thats broken all their rules...
So he thinks his constitutional right of freedom of speech is being violated?!?! And now he wants to shut them down?!?! What a dick tater wanna be!!!!!!!
I DO think they need to be held responsible for allowing fake accounts or patently FALSE information and conspiracy theories!
Trump is a pathological liar, the enemy of the people, and a clear and present danger to the United States.
We can’t let large scale Mail-In Ballots take root in our Country - Donald Trump The President & Conservatives Plan to FORCE Democrats to vote at the polls during a pandemic, because Early Voting is a Republican-only strategy. DEMAND YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE-BY-MAIL, DEMOCRATS 🌊
If - at all - the tech giants are biased against groups with no or little power.
Conservatives don't believe in science/technology. They usually peddle their Kool-Aid in churches praying the virus away. Why is realDonaldTrump even on a social media platform? Just do his thing on the golf course. No wait..nobody there cares to hear his bs rhetoric.
About Time.
Lol because their are going to fact check him?
the US president mulls over how to limit 1A because he finally got called on a lie... meanwhile not a word towards the leading social issue in the US (unchecked police aggression/violence) in the wake of the brutal killing of George Floyd, which has the entire nation in an uproar
I DARE the government to do it! Come on you bunch of Clowns!
We fuc**** with the very core of our democracy now....freedom of speech versus freedom to blatantly lie on social media platforms. Not the same thing though King Clueless thinks it is. Next he'll probably say it's ok to yell FIRE in a movie theater.....
No, the POTUS' warning represented a child throwing a temper tantrum.
Does conservative expression include outright lies ?
JusticeForCarolyn
Not going to take sides on this, but realDonaldTrump has a point, though. Twitter is fact-checking Trump with a CNN article!!! I kid you not!!! How is that a fair and unbiased fact-check?🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
Trump can rant all he wants to but that is not bias or the restriction of free speech as he puts it. That is simply telling people to do some fact checking which is a wise idea when you are dealing with the biggest pathological liar in political history.
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