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IcyPeas

(25,475 posts)
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 06:59 PM Jan 2021

Trump expected to fight with big tech during final days in office... CNN

(CNN)President Donald Trump is preparing to lean into his fight with Twitter and other social media platforms this week, a Trump adviser said, using his permanent suspension from Twitter as an opportunity to shift the narrative away from the insurrection on Capitol Hill earlier in the week.
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As CNN has previously reported, Trump is also expected to issue a raft of pardons, travel to the border wall and sign some executive orders in his final days in office. How and when he folds his attacks on social media companies is still being worked out



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Trump expected to fight with big tech during final days in office... CNN (Original Post) IcyPeas Jan 2021 OP
How? aquamarina Jan 2021 #1
He can't tweet and too cowardly to be seen in public Dream Girl Jan 2021 #6
Any moment spent fighting with big tech Proud Liberal Dem Jan 2021 #2
Good luck with that turtleblossom Jan 2021 #3
Better "Big Tech" than Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, etc... RockRaven Jan 2021 #4
There's a good distraction for him Silent3 Jan 2021 #5
 

Dream Girl

(5,111 posts)
6. He can't tweet and too cowardly to be seen in public
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 07:09 PM
Jan 2021

So he will just nuke Silicon Valley

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,957 posts)
2. Any moment spent fighting with big tech
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 07:01 PM
Jan 2021

is a moment not spent planning any more harmful actions to us- or others. Hopefully, though, our Congress gets busy with trying to remove him sooner rather than later because he just needs to go at this point.

turtleblossom

(504 posts)
3. Good luck with that
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 07:02 PM
Jan 2021

I'd like to be a fly on Mike Pence's head when the IT team scrape his ass off the internet.

 

Silent3

(15,909 posts)
5. There's a good distraction for him
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 07:07 PM
Jan 2021

Hope it keeps him busy and away from other trouble he could cause.

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