[LINK] Trump's “Truth Social” rips off open-source platform

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

On 24/10/2021 8:33 pm, Stephen Loosley wrote:
> Trump’s social network has 30 days to stop breaking the rules of its 
> software license

According to slashdot,:

"- Despite advertising itself as a platform that will "give a voice to 
all," according to a press release, TRUTH Social's terms of service 
state that users may not "disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our 
opinion, us and/or the Site." In other words, any user who criticizes 
Trump or the site can be kicked off the platform...

- [W]hile portraying itself as a refuge for free speech and the "first 
major rival to 'Big Tech,'" TRUTH Social's terms of service make it 
clear that the platform not only intends to moderate content — just as 
Twitter and Facebook do — but reserves the right to remove users for any 
reason it deems necessary. The terms go on to say that if TRUTH Social 
decides to terminate or suspend your account, the platform may also sue 
you — something that Twitter and Facebook's terms don't say. "In 
addition to terminating or suspending your account, we reserve the right 
to take appropriate legal action, including without limitation pursuing 
civil, criminal, and injunctive redress," TRUTH Social's terms state...

- Maybe most notably, the site's list of prohibited activities includes 
the "excessive use of capital letters," an idiosyncrasy that Trump 
became known for on Twitter and that no other major social network 
specifically bans. TRUTH Social's terms also contain some sections 
written in all-caps."

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/10/24/130239/trumps-truth-app-bans-criticism-of-itself---and-also-excessive-use-of-capital-letters

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Regards
brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Canberra Australia
email: brd at iimetro.com.au