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Thursday, January 11, 2018

You can say what you like on Twitter – as long as you’re US president | Christian Christensen

Is the social media company so relaxed about Trump’s tweets – even when he threatens nuclear war – because it gains so much from them?

What does it take to get kicked off of Twitter, even for just one day? How about issuing – to 46 million followers – a threat of nuclear holocaust against a sovereign state that will claim an untold number of lives? Not even that if you are an elected leader, it seems.

In a recent blogpost, Twitter wrote that: “Blocking a world leader from Twitter or removing their controversial tweets would hide important information people should be able to see and debate.” In addition, Twitter management argued that blocking politicians such as Trump, “would also not silence that leader, but it would certainly hamper necessary discussion around their words and actions”.

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