Twitter is a national security threat if we are to believe Trump

Trump is a national security threat.

I know this is extreme, but I think politicians should be banned from social media. The temptation to lie, exaggerate, omit, and otherwise mislead the American public is too great....and that's without social media. With it? Well, just look at the past four years.

President has the Whitehouse website. States should give their senators and congressmen a website and 21 minutes per week on public access television, and that's it.

@mrbojangles25: The president has the largest microphone in the country with or without social media. It even has it's own term - the bully pulpit.

I feel the problem is that the president and his enablers feel they can lie without repercussions, and their followers allow them to. Not the medium through which those lies are conveyed. Lacking the social media medium, they'd simply continue to use others to largely the same effect, and leave the propagation of them through social media to their followers.

@mattbbpl: Everything you say is accurate, I just feel people tend to believe it more when it's on Twitter...for whatever reason. People used to doubt--healthily, I might add-- the truth and over all message whenever the president would speak. Now it's like "Oh it must be true!".

I miss that doubt we always seemed to have, that patriotic skepticism haha

I don't know, tbh I don't remember social media ever being a real concern for important stuff. More of just an annoyance than anything. This all seems new and oddly threatening.

@mrbojangles25: Yeah, I understand where you're coming from, I'm just cautioning against viewing your proposal as a panacea. I fear there are no easy answers, and the true solution will be retraining ourselves how to think again (which is legitimately a learned skill we seem to have lost).

not lost. more of taken over by external forces . for profit gains

Yeah, they (those external forces) have really mastered appealing to the id, to the lizard part of our brain, in subtle ways. Far more sinister than "sex sells" or simply making people angry.

@firedrakes: That sounds about right.

yes it does.. like erb bay said. its all about the fkign money

@LJS9502_basic: @Maroxad: So no citations or proof to prove your claim. Got it.

Trolling? Or do you have proof that needs refuted?

The burden of proof lies on the one making the positive claim.

That is the one that asserts that Social Media specifically targets right wingers for being right wingers. The fact is, you are targetting a small part of my greater argument.

And no Anecdotes are just that, anecdotes. The fact that millions of right wingers are posting on Twitter Right now is evidence that right wingers are allowed to post there. Just that they too need to actually READ the terms of service.

Leftists also get banned for spreading misinformation, such as David Icke. But alas, most prominent leftists tend to know to NOT spread hatred against right wingers, and when they do get banned, they dont tend to make a big deal out of it.

But just to please you, I will lower the bar to your level (which means I need to dig a bit)

From 2020 alone,

• A (fake) Antifa account got banned for hateful comments towards right wingers.
• The Chaser got suspended for impersonating and calling Trump an idiot.
• 70 accounts were banned for pro michael bloomberg spam
• 170k pro CCP accounts were banned for disinformation

Here's a recent example of social media bias against conservatives.

@mattbbpl: Obviously they should label the zero tweets to be fair........lol.

Edit: tweets. I was talking to my dog.

I always found it funny how some conservatives have no difficulties accepting that some demographics have higher incarceration rates, because they commit more crimes (which is true, but it is due to environmental factors as opposed to inherent ones). But when Right Wingers are more likely to be banned from a platform (which is also true), they cry foul, and put on their tinfoil hats.

They hate being the out group. Then it is unfair. As long as they are the in group, it is fair.

Curse them and their bias towards *checks notes*.....facts and evidence.

One of these days I'm going to break down and tattoo the image below on my forehead so I can just point to it whenever these types of things are brought up.

@mattbbpl said:

@Maroxad said:

@mattbbpl said:

Here's a recent example of social media bias against conservatives.

I always found it funny how some conservatives have no difficulties accepting that some demographics have higher incarceration rates, because they commit more crimes (which is true, but it is due to environmental factors as opposed to inherent ones). But when Right Wingers are more likely to be banned from a platform (which is also true), they cry foul, and put on their tinfoil hats.

One of these days I'm going to break down and tattoo the image below on my forehead so I can just point to it whenever these types of things are brought up.

Survivorship bias when they succeed. Persecution complex when don't get everything they want. A winning combo.

So...Trump is now threatening to veto the National Defense Authorization Act if s.230 doesn't get repealed.

That's the act that funds the US military for 2021.

He's actually threatening to destroy the US military over Twitter tags.

This man is unhinged. 25th amendment or complete the impeachment. He's trying to destroy the country before he leaves, likely to make a mess that Biden can't clean up so he has a better chance in 2024.

@mattbbpl: Post some examples of Biden tweets that should be flagged and why. Also, Biden hasn't even tweeted 100 times since then.

@techhog89: I can't, and I know. The claim is ludicrous.

Like the tax increase set for 2021?

Yes, exactly. Biden will be blamed for it, and Trump will make sure to use that as a talking point in his rallies.

And now his supporters are calling for Martial Law... For the good of the country and the world, Trump and his family need to be jailed for life and/or executed. They're saying that it's necessary to prevent civil war, but the people making that claim are the ones likely to start a civil war. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Trump either needs to man-up and stop this or be declared a traitor. Though, it may be too late. The damage he's done is likely irreparable.

At the very least, him and his supporters should defect from the Republican Party and form their own party since they divided the party anyway.

The national security thing? Who knows. What I do know is twitter is one of the DUMBEST pieces of media in existence.

I bet parlor has that beat..........

While the original article is adding some flair to draw a story from a Tweet, there is some interesting underlying arguments to be made here regarding the immunity from major tech-corporations; especially when they act as a publisher. As for matter of "national security," keep in mind there are major powerful nations/conglomerates (European Union included) across the globe that actively control/regulate content on the internet - and why content is posted via the "dark web/VPNs" to circumvent overreaching governments. There's arguments to be made on both sides.

Yeah, that doesn't make you look unhinged at all.

Haven't been paying attention to Michael Flynn then have you...........

I'm unhinged for saying that a traitor threatening national security and the Constitution needs to be dealt with before they start a civil war that will cost millions of innocent lives?

Running to a safe space doesn't really help the conservative assertion that it's the liberals who are snowflakes. Besides, if Bitchute, Gab and Freedombook are anything to go by, it won't be popular enough outside of angry old conservatives to be anywhere NEAR a contender for the mainstream platforms, and will forever have a hand-to-mouth relationship with the most extreme of conservative groups.

By the way, here's an example of the lively debate to be found on Parler...

Who's the threat to national security, again?