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New York Times: It's Time to Pull the Plug on Trump's Tweets
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 19:15:33 -0500
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From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com> Date: January 26, 2017 at 1:05:42 PM EST To: nnsquad () nnsquad org Subject: [ NNSquad ] New York Times: It's Time to Pull the Plug on Trump's Tweets New York Times: It's Time to Pull the Plug on Trump's Tweets https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/business/dealbook/its-time-to-pull-the-plug-on-trumps-tweets.html To try to get another perspective on whether Mr. Dorsey should toss Mr. Trump off Twitter, I reached out to Lauren Weinstein. He is the co-founder of People for Internet Responsibility. For Mr. Weinstein the fundamental question is whether Mr. Trump is being treated differently from other Twitter users. "My view is that he has been and still is being treated differently, permitted to continue tweeting where any ordinary user would have been either temporarily or permanently banned long ago," he emailed me. His logic is that Mr. Trump's tweeting does, in fact, violate several aspects of Twitter's terms of service, including his "continuing direct attacks on individuals," and the way those tweets inspire "massive secondary attacks from his followers and others." He also is concerned that Mr. Trump's tweets about individual corporations are hurting their stock prices, in the short run, and might lead to long term stock manipulation or "blackmail." Any "ordinary" user would have been kicked off long ago, Mr. Weinstein wrote me. "I realize that Trump represents a cash cow of sorts to Twitter in terms of visibility and engagement, but they need to show some spine, or else admit that their T.O.S." -- terms of service -- "is just a paper tiger that's all show and no substance," he concluded.
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