Mr Weinersteiner has found the MSM a censorship ally...
who coulda predicted it?
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 10:05:42 -0800
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Subject: [ FIR ] New York Times: It's Time to Pull the Plug on Trump's Tweets
New York Times: It's Time to Pull the Plug on Trump's Tweets
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/business/dealbook/its-time-to-pull-the-pl...
To try to get another perspective on whether Mr. Dorsey
should toss Mr. Trump off Twitter, I reached out to Lauren
Weinersteiner. He is the co-founder of People for Internet
Responsibility. For Mr. Weinstein the fundamental question is
whether Mr. Trump is being treated differently from other
Twitter users. "My view is that he has been and still is being
treated differently, permitted to continue tweeting where any
ordinary user would have been either temporarily or
permanently banned long ago," he emailed me. His logic is
that Mr. Trump's tweeting does, in fact, violate several
aspects of Twitter's terms of service, including his
"continuing direct attacks on individuals," and the way those
tweets inspire "massive secondary attacks from his followers
and others." He also is concerned that Mr. Trump's tweets
about individual corporations are hurting their stock prices,
in the short run, and might lead to long term stock
manipulation or "blackmail." Any "ordinary" user would have
been kicked off long ago, Mr. Weinstein wrote me. "I realize
that Trump represents a cash cow of sorts to Twitter in terms
of visibility and engagement, but they need to show some
spine, or else admit that their T.O.S." -- terms of service --
"is just a paper tiger that's all show and no substance," he
concluded.
