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Should Twitter ban Donald Trump?

Should twitter ban Donald Trump


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This thread shows just how much the Democratic Party is at war with freedom of speech and want any opinion or belief they do not agree with literally banned.

We can also see that all the complaints about the Citizens United ruling also were fake in that most Democrats go along with their party's stance that the wealthiest corporations on earth should have the ability to near totally dominate all politics with billions of dollars of politics plus able to shut down/ban any political statements and beliefs in opposition to the profits of the corporation and super rich.

I am a Democrat and voted against taking Trump off Facebook. So please adjust your thinking.
 
Which rule did he break? Be specific to the terms of service.

Thanks in advance.

Its more the fact he uses it as an unregulated platform to complain, present, argue and judge just about everything. Its the fact he uses short grabs of information to appeal to the masses and thats how he uses Twitter to his advantage. Are some of the things he state immoral and wrong, yes. Are they illegal, would have to look into what he states further.
 
He is the biggest troll on twitter. What are Twitter's terms of service? There are far less egregious offenses that have gotten people banned from Twitter.

:lol: I doubt that would end well for them.
 
He is the biggest troll on twitter. What are Twitter's terms of service? There are far less egregious offenses that have gotten people banned from Twitter.

I cannot answer the poll because there are only 2 choices. Can Twitter ban Trump? Absolutely. Should Twitter ban Trump? I don't know.
 
He would drive certain posters here to suicide. He probably would take over as moderator and start giving infractions to many posters.

At least those who had his back would get promotions on this forum.

Trump would end up getting banned within a week. He'd break rules, and when infracted, he'd try to make stupid excuses and try to play some of his stupid trolling games. Problem is, Trump would be playing in MY HOUSE. He wouldn't survive me and I'd probably publicly ban him just for laughs when he pointed out.
 
I don't care what your thoughts are about the president. What is happening on Social media is down right scary over the silencing of conservative voices.

Twitter, Facebook etc/

Look if you are true believer in free speech regardless of your political views you should be concerned.
 
I don't care what your thoughts are about the president. What is happening on Social media is down right scary over the silencing of conservative voices.

Twitter, Facebook etc/

Look if you are true believer in free speech regardless of your political views you should be concerned.

im a true believe of free speech IF a person is banned from twitter it has nothing to do with free speech. If you disagree factually prove how it is, thanks
 
No, as much of an intellectually lazy troll that he is he's the president of the United States. Better to know what his thoughts are in advance so that we can brace ourselves for the horror that will most certainly follow.
 
Do they have the right to ban him? Sure. They're a private company and can allow or not allow whoever they want to use their service.

That being said, banning him would be pretty stupid. Having the President of the United States using Twitter, regardless of how well or poorly he uses it, is quite the feather in their cap.
 
By all means no !! Its a constant daily reminder on what a POS he is to the American electorate.
 
Oh, NO!


The President's tweets are the only way that we can know about the great work that he is doing to save our country.
 
Are we for or against freedom of speech? Should we ban all future presidents as well? I mean, one side or the other will not like what they have to say and consider them trolls. Don't forget, what goes around comes around.
 
You've been on a site for 9 years now that has TOS. Do you have a problem with private owners of this site imposing rules that regulate acceptable conduct? If you had a website, don't you think you have the right to ban some asshole who decides it's a fun game to troll you and trash your place?
Is Debate Politics the only political debate site online? Is it the majority? Is it even 1%?

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Is Debate Politics the only political debate site online? Is it the majority? Is it even 1%?

I don't see why it matters. At least the way I look at it is the moderators....moderate to make this place better, to get rid of offensive trolls who attack other members and pollute the environment. Or maybe they do it for another reason, but THAT is why I like moderation. If you're not willing to be somewhat civil, you don't get to play in this sandbox. That's a good thing! Well, why should Twitter have to put up with offensive trolls who DO drive customers as is off their site, especially women, and especially minority women. Based on what principle should government force Twitter to allow deliberately offensive trolls that trash their privately owned sandbox a free run?
 
I don't see why it matters. At least the way I look at it is the moderators....moderate to make this place better, to get rid of offensive trolls who attack other members and pollute the environment. Or maybe they do it for another reason, but THAT is why I like moderation. If you're not willing to be somewhat civil, you don't get to play in this sandbox. That's a good thing! Well, why should Twitter have to put up with offensive trolls who DO drive customers as is off their site, especially women, and especially minority women. Based on what principle should government force Twitter to allow deliberately offensive trolls that trash their privately owned sandbox a free run?

Because there's a ton of competition when it comes to political debate sites. What is the competition to Twitter? There effectively is none. As such, when Twitter bans someone, it removes any platform for them to spread their message. If there were other platforms then this wouldn't be much of an issue, but since we have monopolization in online tech companies, then we're stuck with these nasty situations.
 
Because there's a ton of competition when it comes to political debate sites. What is the competition to Twitter? There effectively is none. As such, when Twitter bans someone, it removes any platform for them to spread their message. If there were other platforms then this wouldn't be much of an issue, but since we have monopolization in online tech companies, then we're stuck with these nasty situations.

It doesn't remove "any" platform, but one of many. You're spreading your message right now. You can use Facebook, or Instagram or YouTube. Gab and Counter Social are two direct alternatives to Twitter - not as big, but so what? You could build a website of your own - lots have and they get traffic, but if not, you're not entitled to someone else providing you a FREE platform to do your personal PR or political persuasion.

In some ways I agree with you about monopolization, but that's a different problem IMO, and Twitter is far from the worst offender - they're basically just....Twitter.

In some theoretical way, I agree Twitter ought to tolerate quite a bit, but I can't imagine anyone using the service regularly and actually believing that censorship of conservatives (or liberals, or libertarians) is an issue that rises above the trivial. They're more intolerant of racists and bigots, but you still have to almost try to get booted from Twitter even if you are openly racist or bigoted - just don't attack others. Talk about your racism/bigotry all you want, just don't troll/attack e.g. individual Jews or blacks or women, and there's roughly a 0% chance of getting booted.

And at the end of the day, what they allow or not seems like a business decision they should be permitted to make, same as DP. I'm not sure how to write rules that apply only to Facebook and Twitter.
 
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