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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGaslight Social is having conniptions...
How's that Civil War coming along?
The irony is rich: Truth Social, Donald Trumps Twitter copycat claiming it is free from political discrimination, has reportedly banned users who posted information from Thursdays congressional hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in which the former president is a key focus.
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Seeing a lot of folks getting banned from Trumps Truth Social for posting updates about the January 6 Committee hearings, Max Burns, communications director for New York State Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou, tweeted Friday. Apparently free speech has its limits even in Trumpland.
Also Friday morning, another Twitter user reported, Just put out my first post on Truth social and they deleted it. Real freedom of speech champs there.
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Seeing a lot of folks getting banned from Trumps Truth Social for posting updates about the January 6 Committee hearings, Max Burns, communications director for New York State Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou, tweeted Friday. Apparently free speech has its limits even in Trumpland.
Also Friday morning, another Twitter user reported, Just put out my first post on Truth social and they deleted it. Real freedom of speech champs there.
https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/trumps-truth-social-is-banning-users-who-post-about-jan-6-hearings-according-to-reports-1235290726/
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Gaslight Social is having conniptions... (Original Post)
AntiFascist
Jun 2022
OP
Trump knows that he marks history as an object of scorn, ridicule, sedition, and failure. nt.
PufPuf23
Jun 2022
#12
ultralite001
(894 posts)1. (Un)TS still hasn't fixed this link...
In the Apple iOS store, when you look at the (un)Truth Social screenshots --
under "Custom Profile," Mr Bob Jones lists his website as " joneworks[dot]studio "...
It redirects here:
[link:https://m.startribune.com/trump-america-s-sorest-loser/600011623/|]
Beachnutt
(7,354 posts)2. Can go on some of the stock chats
and post away....DWAC is the symbol
doc03
(35,417 posts)3. So ,"Truth" Social is a lie. nt
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)5. It's Trump's.
What else did you expect? The truth, on Truth Social?
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,845 posts)4. The TRUTH hurts!!
The whole TRUTH, nothing but the TRUTH. But NOT in Trumpland.
towerbum
(263 posts)6. fb & Twitter thought they had a competitor ! that's funny !
ThoughtCriminal
(14,050 posts)7. "Free speech has its limits even in Trumpland"
"even"?
I think she misspelled "Especially".
czarjak
(11,310 posts)8. "Truth isn't Truth"! So.
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)9. If I got a dime for every Drumpf lie
I could buy Facebook
andym
(5,446 posts)10. Pravda Social. nt.
Captain Zero
(6,845 posts)11. Beat me to it.
Wtg
PufPuf23
(8,845 posts)12. Trump knows that he marks history as an object of scorn, ridicule, sedition, and failure. nt.
Blue Owl
(50,539 posts)13. Diarrhea Donny's got the Truth Trots
Septua
(2,265 posts)14. Thanks for the heads up...
I had thought about membering up at the place hoping to take some jabs at Trump. Guess he only deals in alternative truth.
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)15. The "platform" was created by a thin-skinned troll. What did they really think was going to happen?
Donald Trump believes in free speech as much as he believes in law & order. Different rules for him, always.
GoneOffShore
(17,342 posts)16. Truth Social: like MySpace but dumber.