by incrudible on 1/7/21, 8:11 PM
I find this disingenuous. This is his latest position on the matter of succession[1]:
"Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th"
Why does Twitter want to prevent him from making such a statement on his Twitter account? Would that not be calming the situation, if anything?
[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/07/trump-transition-of...
EDIT: I misread Twitch for Twitter. Alternatively, I'm prescient and this was posted in the wrong thread.
by lrossi on 1/7/21, 8:16 PM
I wonder if he has a World of Warcraft account as well.
by Threeve303 on 1/7/21, 8:57 PM
Despite the circumstances, I don’t think it sets a good precedent in the future. Many reasons for this, not least of which is when you have a criminal continuing to give evidence publicly you let them keep going...
by pupppet on 1/7/21, 8:56 PM
Just love how these companies suddenly find a backbone days before he's out of office, just a coincidence I'm sure.
by rq1 on 1/7/21, 9:33 PM
I completely and fundamentally disagree with Trump and his “ideology”.
But how can we agree on the principle of censorship?
I mean, if we agree with the idea of censorship, we also mechanically agree to get censored tomorrow by whoever is the new censor.
Shouldn’t it be the same rule for everyone?
by chemmail on 1/7/21, 10:45 PM
I read that as Twitter, but lets ago ahead and do that too.
by BitwiseFool on 1/7/21, 7:56 PM
At this rate, what service isn't going to deplatform Donald Trump?
by throwaway201103 on 1/7/21, 8:00 PM
Was Twitch something Trump really used? Can't recall ever hearing about anything he said via Twitch.
by you_are_naive on 1/7/21, 8:23 PM
Am I the only one who finds the whole situation bizarre?
Edit: I will be more blunt since some replies show they don't understand what I find weird:
Why do you need a private social media company to stop your president from planting terrorism in your own country because he thinks the election is fake instead of congress/government/whatever??!
by user982 on 1/7/21, 8:17 PM
Hands up if you knew Trump had a Twitch account before this announcement.
Keep them raised if you'd watched it.
Anyone?
by specialist on 1/7/21, 9:32 PM
I'd pay real money for a personal custom filter bubble which prevented me from hearing or reading anything about Trump ever again.
by otterley on 1/7/21, 8:23 PM
And nothing of value was lost.
by 29athrowaway on 1/7/21, 9:12 PM
I hope Twitch now bans antivaxxers and antimaskers.
For example, this person, http://twitch.tv/anthonypatchofficial makes a living via Patreon donations spreading misinformation about COVID-19.
He claims vaccines are made using HIV, among other nonsense.
He has 100+ viewers in average. He could not make a living doing this if Patreon and Twitch deplatformed him.
The only reason that guy gets up in the morning is to make the pandemic worse than it already is.
by nikolay on 1/7/21, 9:04 PM
As much as you don't like him, he is still the president. Platforms are way too full of themselves these days! It's shameful that SV is now the biggest censor there ever was! And platforms need to learn from the past - by silencing voices, they actually create the image of a martyr, of a persecuted person giving him even more power among his followers! I have people post vulgar and offensive stuff on my Facebook wall - I never block or delete them, never attack back, etc. The stoicism of being able to tolerate people you don't like is the thru humanism and the true liberalism, not the opposite! The Commies used to pull out the tongues of people who they didn't like and who they turned into existential enemies. And let me express this type of mentality by quoting Stalin: "When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem." This is where we ended up! No civil discourse! We no longer agree to disagree! And this applies to both sides, of course! And if we look in the past, this never leads to a good ending!
by moate on 1/7/21, 8:58 PM
Let me see if I learned my lesson from the Facebook post: Censorship is bad, nobody should be making decisions for other people, monolithic tech companies are bad. People should have rights and saying this should be a thing people can do. Hurting people is bad, unless we need to hurt them to stop them from hurting other people (or things). Neutral Discourse Provided.