‘Close Them Down’: Trump Threatens To Shut Down Social Media Platforms

For once I agree with him

Damn is looking xtra orange today

Someone got a fresh coat this morning.

I'm not too fond of any SM, but this is what Fascists say.

[quote] Hours later, the president responded by accusing the company of “interfering” in the 2020 election, [bold]stifling free speech[/bold]

Does he not know the definition of irony?

He thinks Irony is a place in South America.

He sure likes to look like a fool by bloviating with absolutely no authority to do the things he threatens.

“I am the ultimate authority with states opening.”

“Churches must open, I will override governors who refuse.”

I really hope the damn press corps calls him out. If he refuses to answer the question and goes to the next reporter, that reporter should ask the same question until he huffs away from the podium.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

R5, I was about to mention that. Jesus fucking Christ, we would mercilessly make fun of an idiot who had no idea what free speech means or to what it applies. This is the fucking president! Aside from the fact that he's a Fascist. he doesn't know what "free speech" means! in the context of this nation. I...can't.

His supporters need to be sterilized. No one that stupid should be allowed to reproduce.

He makes these threats, knowing that they can never happen, but uses them as a signal to his lunatics to take action.

It is at long last time to invoke Article 25; admit it, the man is insane. Remember, too, he holds the nuclear codes..

"Where is that football? It's around here someplace. The biscuit? Oh, I ate that with Easter dinner." Orange It, APOTUS.

King of the American Idiots!

[quote]For once I agree with him

You agree that his followers are silenced r1?

R5: Orange It cannot even *spell* the word irony in order to look-up its definition. Oh, the irony!

Wannabe autocrat. I hope blue ice from Space X falls from the sky and crushes his empty melon.

And where are the Republicans who have always championed big business and free enterprise?

Did someone have a nasty shit on his FACE!? It's looking worse than EVER!

Because Trump is God

Trump is so full of shit. He would be climbing the White House walls and out of his mind even more than he already is if Twitter was gone. Besides, Twitter is a private company. Trump can't do shit.

Having said that, Trump should be banned from Twittter for good because of his lying. But if not banned permanently, he should be banned for his disgusting behavior toward the family of the woman who died. He is a slimy piece of shit who goes lower than anyone can imagine.

Trump would die without Twitter. Let him close it down...see what that gets him.

I'm too lazy to look it up. Does Trump use the POTUS twitter handle or his own?

Twitter is private company. Trump can't shut down shit.

Sufferin’ succotash! How would Tweety Bird live without his precious tweets?

I guess he is going to issue an executive order or some kind of nonsense

I don't think there's anything he can do about it since he doesn't own Congress.

[quote]he doesn't own Congress.

Has anyone told him this?

R23 I AM PRESIDENT AND I WILL DO WHATEVER I WANT AND YOU CAN NOT STOP ME!!!

R27 it is something you would assume the President knows

This may finally invigorate the Under-40s, awaking them from their soy-induced comas. Their online social presence is like a pacemaker keeping them alive.

Ass.

U.

Me.

He's so full of shit

Who would feed his bots, trolls and cultists?

He won't shut them down. What would he do without twitter? But he could change their status from platform to publisher and that would strip them of many of the protections (against being sued) they have at that the moment. Scary stuff.

^^Yikes!

[quote] awaking them

Doing what to them now?

For being "silenced" they surely are extraordinarily vocal.

He thinks he's a King. We're supposed to do what he commands. I don't think the man has ever lived in the real world.

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Wouldn't it be nice if instead Trump and his followers all deleted [italic]their[/italic]social media accounts? Without their aggressive stupidity, social media might not actually be half-bad.

It shows how delusional he is that he think he'd get away with this. The social media has the upper hand in that they have millions of people around the world who will cause a shitstorm.

I know a moose who could run the country better. And he’s Canadian! 🇨🇦

"I know a moose who could run the country better."

I accept your nomination and reveal my running mate.

"He thinks he's a King. We're supposed to do what he commands. I don't think the man has ever lived in the real world."

This. Trump has only been involved with a relatively small, family owned business. His old man had the old "my way or the highway" attitude and DJT continued the tradition. He's not used to getting his way because he's surrounded by sycophants and ass kissers. When he became president, he made the mistake of hiring non-ass kissers, and he got rid of them ASAP to once again surround himself with toadies and sycophants.

Ha haha 😆 this is getting ridiculous now

I don't believe he will be able to do it but the fact he openly entertains such thoughts is a clear sign how dangerous he is.

It's just him making noise. This is what he always does to try to pull focus. How would he reach his useful idiots without Twitter?

A fail for him in the legal sense, but an orgasm for his fragile and scared ego to try. I’m glad Twitter stepped up in an effort to keep the. asshole-in-chief in check.

I hope twitter responds to his executive order by suspending his account.

I like Randy Rainbow's take

He officially signed an order

CNBC:

Trump targets social media companies with executive order after Twitter fact-checks his tweets

He genuinely thinks he’s a king. It’s sickening.

Now we’ll have to take up time and money in the courts so they can shove this up his ass.

If you promote censorship on your platform, then in theory, you should not have liability protection. You either give everyone, including those you disagree with, an equal voice or you effectively become a publisher which then becomes subject to regulation.

Poor widdle man baby had someone call him out oh his lies.

R49: That's what I would do! Fuck him. "Account suspended pending litigation" lol. I wonder how Trumpet would respond to that?

[quote]If you promote censorship on your platform, then in theory, you should not have liability protection.

They didn't "promote censorship." They haven't altered or deleted a single one of his tweets. They merely added a note saying "For more information," because, in fact, what he had said was false.

But that was enough to make him hysterical.

Why is he worried about 'fact checking' on Twitter? Well, he never tells the truth and he expects his dumb, shithead followers won't fact check but will instead regurgitate his lies until (to them) it becomes a fact. This is why he demonizes Dems because WE DO fact check and call him out hence he needs his minions to cause acts of violence in his name which he does covertly by liking hateful posts and anything by the QAnon cult.

Twitter hasn't done enough with the fact checking. They need to remove him.

Yes. It is actually the one thing that could be taken away from him. His ability to lie without consequences. No wonder he is losing a gasket. It is his greatest weapon.

Boy this thread gets buried fast!

Very fast

[bold]YOU ARE INTERRUPTING MY FLOW OF POWER![/bold]

Twitter is his primary tool for spreading his propaganda lies. I'm all for closing it down. It will hurt him more than any other user.

I’m for them voluntarily closing until after the election! He would lose this fight and his mind!

Melania: Oh egad, I vould lurve it if he lost his election.

He might just switch over to Gab. They are actively trying to get him to switch. And if he does, his entire creepy conservative base will go with him, and Gab will turn into the Twitter version of Fox News (it's already full of white supremacists).

Good riddance to all that bad rubbish, then.

I've never heard of Gab or Parler. Anyone go on those sites?

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Has anyone been on YouTube lately? Just about every video is preceded by a Trump ad: "Hi, everybody, I'm Laura Trump, it's President Trump's birthday coming up......." or tell the President what you think of socialism. Disgusting.

R70: Yeah, I saw her bullshit ad.

I saw it too. I was tempted to sign up and say "Fuck you" or something, but I don't want to give them the clicks (or give Trump the chance to say 150,000,000 people signed my card - no matter what the message said).

I just noticed one of those birthday ads, and the accompanying music was a Christmas carol. I guess they didn't wanna' pay to sing "Happy Birthday To You"?

Is there a way to send YouTube a hearty fuck you for the Lara Cunt ads? I don't want to see that horsey faced bitch ever.

R74: I looked for the "Stop seeing this ad" option on the right, but it was not available!

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