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Twitter locks Trump's account (Original Post)
RandySF
Jan 2021
OP
Skraxx
(3,179 posts)1. FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
C_U_L8R
(49,506 posts)2. Geez. It only took four freakin years.
But thank you.
RockCreek
(1,496 posts)3. Hallelulah!!!!! N/t
a kennedy
(36,272 posts)5. for 12 lousy hours??? Really?? Why not for the rest of his damn term.
dalton99a
(95,129 posts)6. He'll be back tomorrow
Pachamama
(17,565 posts)7. 12 hours only?
WTF
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)8. And all it took was an armed mob taking over the Capitol
Bold action there, @Jack.
ProfessorGAC
(77,174 posts)11. Beat Me To It!
Where have they been.
And why not just lock the account permanently, Jack?
Fomenting insurrection on Twitter not enough a violation of TOS?
riversedge
(81,426 posts)9. Trump really will lose his mind with
out his twitter account. good.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)10. 12 hours, that a joke
ClusterFreak
(3,112 posts)12. And to think...
All it took was his violence-inciting Tweets which contributed to an armed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol!!
dv421
(188 posts)13. Only 3 years too late
The CEO of twitter needs to resign, twitter is as responsible for this as is the orange baffoon
Blue Owl
(59,539 posts)14. Fuck Trump and Fuck Twitter
That fucking platform has enabled the fat piece of shit right up to this very minute, too late now to pretend they are somehow "ethical"...
EarthFirst
(4,207 posts)15. Fuck! We're really gonna need that 25th now... nt
catbyte
(39,272 posts)16. Rick Wilson just read on their YouTube feed that "senior Twitter administrators & major
stakeholders are meeting now to decide whether to ban him outright." He'll just migrate to Parler, but it would be something.
MiniMe
(21,883 posts)17. No wonder he wanted that law removed