“To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.” – Donald Trump (Jan. 8, 2021)
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It’s 5:45 PM (January 8, 2021) and Donald Trump’s Twitter account is suspended again. I believe (from what I read elsewhere today) that this was his last chance. Appears he might be suspended indefinitely now.
I never liked Twitter anyway and rejected it as far back as 2007.
Twitter says one of the reasons why President Trump was suspended was due to “plans for future armed protests proliferating on and off-Twitter, including a proposed secondary attack on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17, 2021.”
Discord too. Discord has banned the server “The Donald”, “due to its overt connection to an online forum used to incite violence and plan an armed insurrection.”
The Donald Trump subreddit has also now (earlier today) been banned. “Reddit has banned the subreddit /r/DonaldTrump”
Looks like the Apple App Store has given Parler 24 hours to start a censorship policy:
“We have received numerous complaints regarding objectionable content in your Parler service, accusations that the Parler app was used to plan, coordinate, and facilitate the illegal activities in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021 that led (among other things) to loss of life, numerous injuries, and the destruction of property,” Apple wrote to Parler. “The app also appears to continue to be used to plan and facilitate yet further illegal and dangerous activities.”
Google suspends Parler app from the Google Play Store.
Apple App Store officially suspends the Parler app.
Amazon will cease hosting Parler.com (and the backend of the Parler iOS and Android apps) tomorrow night (Jan 10th, 2020). Letter from Amazon to Parler:
Dear Amy,
Thank you for speaking with us earlier today.
As we discussed on the phone yesterday and this morning, we remain troubled by the repeated violations of our terms of service. Over the past several weeks, we’ve reported 98 examples to Parler of posts that clearly encourage and incite violence. Here are a few examples below from the ones we’ve sent previously: [See images above.]
Recently, we’ve seen a steady increase in this violent content on your website, all of which violates our terms. It’s clear that Parler does not have an effective process to comply with the AWS terms of service. It also seems that Parler is still trying to determine its position on content moderation. You remove some violent content when contacted by us or others, but not always with urgency. Your CEO recently stated publicly that he doesn’t “feel responsible for any of this, and neither should the platform.” This morning, you shared that you have a plan to more proactively moderate violent content, but plan to do so manually with volunteers. It’s our view that this nascent plan to use volunteers to promptly identify and remove dangerous content will not work in light of the rapidly growing number of violent posts. This is further demonstrated by the fact that you still have not taken down much of the content that we’ve sent you. Given the unfortunate events that transpired this past week in Washington, D.C., there is serious risk that this type of content will further incite violence.
AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we continue to respect Parler’s right to determine for itself what content it will allow on its site. However, we cannot provide services to a customer that is unable to effectively identify and remove content that encourages or incites violence against others. Because Parler cannot comply with our terms of service and poses a very real risk to public safety, we plan to suspend Parler’s account effective Sunday, January 10th, at 11:59PM PST. We will ensure that all of your data is preserved for you to migrate to your own servers, and will work with you as best as we can to help your migration.
– AWS Trust & Safety Team
Stripe is the latest platform to ban Trump and his campaign team from using their services, this is a coordinated take down of the leader of the free world.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stripe-stops-processing-payments-for-trump-campaign-website-11610319116