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Trump to close Twitter?

Do you think Twitter should add "fake news" warnings to Trump's tweets?

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    Votes: 1 3.0%

  • Yes, Trump tweets fake news

    Votes: 29 87.9%

  • No, Trump speaks the truth

    Votes: 3 9.1%
  • Total voters
    33
  • Poll closed .
Ikari said:
I don't know what would happen if Trump got banned from Twitter...he might go crazy. Well...crazier. All that man really does is golf and tweet.
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Hardest working man in politics.
 
swing_voter said:
Even an analysis by the National Republican Lawyers Association aimed at uncovering as much voter fraud as possible found only 332 alleged cases of fraud of any kind nationwide from 1997 through 2011, out of many hundreds of millions of ballots cast.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/10/22/voter-fraud-isnt-problem-america-low-turnout-is/


Voting fraud is like 0.00004%

Or practically zero voter fraud in America.
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I had a guy claim that he and his neighbors were victims of voter fraud in that they had their addresses all changed in Washington state voting system to just down the street. That would be a huge red flag, highly unlikely. I can't find any evidence of it occurring, since such a case would have been reported. Plus, what would be the point?

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Trump again reveals himself a wanna-be authoritarian who desperately wants to shut down anyone who endangers his administration and November er reelection. He is a disgrace to the American people and the day he is no longer in power cannot come soon enough.
 
nota bene said:
Just remember that the next person Twitter comes for may be you/your opinions.
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No. I don't use Twitter. Its not a necessity of life and if I really wanted to share my opinion, however fake it may be, I could always find other mediums to do so.

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Moderate Right said:
You can't wipe out some people's first amendment rights while allowing others. They're asking to get sued every time they try claiming something is fake news when they have no proof other than opinions. It's election time. Pretty much all candidates make false claims about the other side. There is no way to police that unless you do so with a bias.
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It's a private company, Twitter may do as they like, they're not government. It's like DP, you don' have "first amendment rights" here. Things can be censored and moderated. If Trump posts something that is obviously false or misleading, Twitter can label it so. I believe they do this all the time to other posts.
 
This morning Trump was whining on Twitter that he was going to take "big action" against Twitter.:roll:
 
That guy is losing it. Someone needs to get him under control.
 
Moderate Right said:
You can't wipe out some people's first amendment rights while allowing others. They're asking to get sued every time they try claiming something is fake news when they have no proof other than opinions. It's election time. Pretty much all candidates make false claims about the other side. There is no way to police that unless you do so with a bias.
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Twitter is not the government. You do not have a right to use other peoples platforms as you see fit for your speeches.

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nota bene said:
Viva the First Amendment, downsides and all.
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I agree, he is free to make totally fact free claims, but Twitter has the freedom of speech to point it's readers towards the lack of truthfulness of those comments.

Hey, that is the result of the companies are people too (Citizens United), because if it is valid for the electoral process, it is true for this too.
 
Moderate Right said:
Your poll question does not correspond to the poll answers. Your poll question asked if Twitter should add "fake news" warnings to Trump tweets and then your poll answers merely ask if Trump tweets are fake news or if they are the truth. So, I couldn't answer your poll. Twitter is not the fake news police for anyone. They are not the judge of what is fake or not. Therefore, whether Trump speaks the truth or spouts off about something, Twitter shouldn't be commenting about any of it. Social media constantly has fake news on it.
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They are on their site. Its their site. They can deem anything they want as fake news or potentially fake news or simply crap.

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Grand Mal said:
That guy is losing it. Someone needs to get him under control.
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That's been true since the start. But Trump is too caught up in his narcissism and ego that it drives his delusions. He can't get out of his delusions.
 
Ikari said:
It's a private company, Twitter may do as they like, they're not government. It's like DP, you don' have "first amendment rights" here. Things can be censored and moderated. If Trump posts something that is obviously false or misleading, Twitter can label it so. I believe they do this all the time to other posts.
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And yet the left rip Facebook all over the place. Facebook is the left's enemy. Twitter is their hero.
 
roguenuke said:
They are on their site. Its their site. They can deem anything they want as fake news or potentially fake news or simply crap.

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The hypocrisy abounds to no ends when the left attack Facebook time and time again.
 
Moderate Right said:
And yet the left rip Facebook all over the place. Facebook is the left's enemy. Twitter is their hero.
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They're both rather pointless piles of crap, but that has nothing to do with the debate here. You made some absurd claim to freedom of speech, but it doesn't apply here to tweets.
 
swing_voter said:
Even an analysis by the National Republican Lawyers Association aimed at uncovering as much voter fraud as possible found only 332 alleged cases of fraud of any kind nationwide from 1997 through 2011, out of many hundreds of millions of ballots cast.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/10/22/voter-fraud-isnt-problem-america-low-turnout-is/

Voting fraud is like 0.00004%

Or practically zero voter fraud in America.
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That’s a suspect figure without any definition behind it. It’s a small(ish) number but not that small. For example, Ohio identified 77 ballots cast in 2018 by legal residents who are not eligible to vote. Add to that cases of eligible citizens who mail multiple absentee ballots under forged signatures or vote in-person after mailing an absentee ballot. It happens and our State at least readily admits that it doesn’t have the tools to find them all.
 
nota bene said:
Just remember that the next person Twitter comes for may be you/your opinions.
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Or you, but neither of us are the President of the United States.
And Twitter's "Terms of Service" predate the Trump administration.
If Trump doesn't want to follow the TOS and Twitter is required to let him do so with impunity, then what is even the point of having one?

So, just remember that Trump is not only above the law, he's even beyond a private company's Terms of Service and is not required to honor any contract or agreement, or pay any debt, or adhere to any oath.

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Just remember that Trump may try to shut down YOUR private enterprise "if it displeases him".
Trump, the guy who supposedly represents those "small government conservatives".
 
Airyaman said:
First amendment does not apply. Social media is not run by government. As a moderator, you should know that.
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Exactly. This is in no way a First Amendment issue. Unless I really have the right to spout off whatever I want to on this forum. It seems to me that those who claim to be defenders of the Constitution so often misapply it.
 
Ikari said:
If what he posts is fake news, of course they should label it as such.

Trump has no power to do anything to Twitter about this, though. This is more of his bravado, no substance mouth running nonsense.
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At least for now. No telling what he may try if he gets reelected.
Oh wait, there IS a way to tell.

Let's have a look-see at what Vlad and Jair are doing with THEIR media services.
 
Twitter should have banned Punkinhead years ago for ToS violations. they liked the sweet money too much to do it.
 
nota bene said:
Just remember that the next person Twitter comes for may be you/your opinions.
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Considering they have a lot of work to do with genuinely harmful accounts, I sincerely doubt it.
 
Ikari said:
I don't know what would happen if Trump got banned from Twitter...he might go crazy. Well...crazier. All that man really does is golf and tweet.
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:lamo - - - Yeah you do, we all do. :lamo

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