"Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th"
Why does Twitter want to prevent him from making such a statement on his Twitter account? Would that not be calming the situation, if anything?
[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/07/trump-transition-of...
EDIT: I misread Twitch for Twitter. Alternatively, I'm prescient and this was posted in the wrong thread.
Cherry picking one sentence of a post that is "calming" is what is disingenuous.
If any tech company were to try to suppress the "facts" that support the "rigged election" narrative, that would only reinforce the their beliefs.
Sorry, but that framing is disingenuous. Trump was suspended when he incited a mob to march to the capitol and "fight" to "stop" a joint session of congress, who then invaded and sacked the seat of government of the United States.
Later, after all this, he posted (for the very first time ever!) that he'd accept the results of the election. So... that's good. But it's not why he was banned.
The transition starts way before January 20th. It starts immediately follwing presidential election. Educate yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_tra...
Trump didn't even acknowledge he would agree to a peaceful transition of power until today when he lost all avenues (however imaginary) of staying in power.
Quotes:
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The General Services Administration Administrator, Emily Murphy, initially refused to issue the "ascertainment" letter declaring Biden the "apparent winner", on the basis that the election result was disputed. The declaration would mark the official start of the transition. Withholding it denied the Biden transition team full funds, secure office space, and access to agencies
Biden had also been denied daily classified national security briefings.
Further, the State Department denied access to communications from foreign leaders, leaving the Biden team to communicate through other unofficial channels.
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Ah, how nevertheless an orderly transition this is, indeed.
If you want any other behavior you’d have to clarify the immunities and/or expectations around platforming government officials explicitly in law, and I am afraid what this congress would come up with.
Many of the people who work on those platforms don't want to be complicit in a coup.
But how can we agree on the principle of censorship?
I mean, if we agree with the idea of censorship, we also mechanically agree to get censored tomorrow by whoever is the new censor.
Shouldn’t it be the same rule for everyone?
More broadly, I disagree with your use of the word “censor.” Trump can say whatever he wants. But it doesn’t follow that if some company doesn’t want to publish his book or stream his video that it’s censorship.
Some places don’t have moderation (parler). Other places do (Twitch). That’s fine.
I’m not talking specifically about Twitch.
At the moment where they make their platform public, they have no political nor moral authority to say what’s good or bad.
Tomorrow if the leadership changes, they can on the contrary censor everything but not Trump and you’ll have nothing to say then.
I'm not even in the US!!
They'll welcome him with open arms.
Edit: I will be more blunt since some replies show they don't understand what I find weird:
Why do you need a private social media company to stop your president from planting terrorism in your own country because he thinks the election is fake instead of congress/government/whatever??!
I think the issue in 2016 was too many people wanted the job. You can agree/disagree whether the primary field included 'outstanding' people, but the sheer number of candidates allowed the loud mouth to stand out.
Nothing prevented this president or any other president from just opening a 24x7 conference call line where he can just blather whatever he feels like at any time to anyone listening.
But, none of them did.
However I have no sympathy for him as his actions are ridiculous on any level let alone as President. Being a Libertarian I am not a fan of big government and I am certainly not a fan of anyone suggesting what he has with how to do deal with an election outcome he does not like.
Sorry, this is not how we are supposed to work and I am actually disappointed that Congress hasn't just pulled the plug as a whole since the debacle started to unfold. Pence has shown he can be put in place, he will be a modern day Ford if not for a short period of time but he should take mantle if not just for the few weeks we need him.
The sad part is this elections are frauds has been building for years and both sides are to blame for creating an environment so poisoned that all elections that don't turn out right are considered unjust. Now we have reached the final stage which is violence.
I mean, even back in 2016, he made it clear that he won't accept the results of any election he didn't win. (And then went on to spend the next year spreading lies and conspiracy theories about how he actually won the popular vote.)
He's just following through on past behaviour. In a country with less robust civic systems, this is the sort of rhetoric that you can leverage into becoming dictator-for-life.
Keep them raised if you'd watched it.
Anyone?
For example, this person, http://twitch.tv/anthonypatchofficial makes a living via Patreon donations spreading misinformation about COVID-19.
He claims vaccines are made using HIV, among other nonsense.
He has 100+ viewers in average. He could not make a living doing this if Patreon and Twitch deplatformed him.
The only reason that guy gets up in the morning is to make the pandemic worse than it already is.
