[LINK] “Twitter Says You Cannot Tweet That You Hope Trump Dies From COVID”

[Kim Holburn]

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/03/politics/twitter-trump-policy-ban-the-squad-politics-trnd/index.html


> Twitter bans posts wishing for Trump death. The Squad wonders where that policy was for them

> The four progressive Democratic congresswomen known as "The Squad" expressed surprise on Friday night when Twitter posted about its policy against wishing harm or death to someone in light of President Trump's Covid-19 diagnosis.
> Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts have all spoken out about the threats they receive on social media and say Twitter isn't doing enough about it.
> Responding to media reporting Friday about people wishing death to the President, a verified account run by Twitter's spokespeople tweeted, "tweets that wish or hope for death, serious bodily harm or fatal disease against *anyone* are not allowed and will need to be removed."
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> "Seriously though, this is messed up. The death threats towards us should have been taking more seriously by [Twitter],"




On 2020/10/6 10:35 am, Ivan Trundle wrote:
> And funny how Twitter is only now doing this publicly: to date it’s fallen on deaf ears. Double standards, yet again.
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> There are plenty of examples of people receiving ‘wish you were dead’ tweets (and worse). It’s run-of-the-mill stuff for many minority figures, world leaders, and politicians (on both sides of any fence):
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> https://twitter.com/ava/status/1312226894750740480
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> (etc: too many to choose from)
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>> On 3 Oct 2020, at 4:07 pm, Roger Clarke <Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au> wrote:
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>> On 3/10/20 3:38 pm, Stephen Loosley wrote:
>>> vice.com:   “Twitter Says You Cannot Tweet That You Hope Trump Dies From COVID”
>>>
>>> Wonder what Link thinks  😊
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>> Can't politely ... ?
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>> Can't morally ... ?
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>> Can't without sacrificing claims to humanity / Christian values / ... ?
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>> Oh, they mean 'we're using Artificial Stupidity to intercept attempted
>> Tweets of that nature before they're broadcast'.  Silly me.
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