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Title: Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump's Account
Post by: Lana Reverse on November 03, 2017, 04:36:00 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/02/trump-twitter-account-offline (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/02/trump-twitter-account-offline)

It seems funny at first (at least if you're anti-Trump like I am), but it gets scary when you think about it (http://uk.businessinsider.com/heres-whats-terrifying-about-the-twitter-employee-who-temporarily-disabled-trumps-account-2017-11?r=US&IR=T).
Title: Re: Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump's Account
Post by: Cloud3514 on November 03, 2017, 06:14:33 pm
Of course you find a way to agree with the alt-right with something this completely irrelevant. Of fucking course.
Title: Re: Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump's Account
Post by: ironbite on November 03, 2017, 06:21:05 pm
How adorable.
Title: Re: Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump's Account
Post by: niam2023 on November 03, 2017, 06:27:47 pm
Yeah. Not even making it subtle how much you agree with them.

I really appreciated the humor of it. Kinda wish they'd cancel his twitter account and perma-ban him.
Title: Re: Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump's Account
Post by: Lana Reverse on November 03, 2017, 06:42:59 pm
Did you read the articles I linked to? Both of them?
Title: Re: Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump's Account
Post by: niam2023 on November 03, 2017, 07:36:30 pm
No.

And I don't intend to.
Title: Re: Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump's Account
Post by: Cloud3514 on November 03, 2017, 07:38:04 pm
No, I didn't read your articles. Because why should I waste my time? This isn't important. It's an amusing event and nothing more. It doesn't mean anything. You're making a mountain out of, not a molehill, but a damn ant hill.
Title: Re: Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump's Account
Post by: niam2023 on November 03, 2017, 07:45:59 pm
Would've been even funnier if the twitter guy made Trump say "my supporters are the stupidest people in existence, just, the stupidest people", right before closing the account.

Title: Re: Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump's Account
Post by: Lana Reverse on November 03, 2017, 08:15:11 pm
No.

And I don't intend to.

No, I didn't read your articles. Because why should I waste my time? This isn't important. It's an amusing event and nothing more. It doesn't mean anything. You're making a mountain out of, not a molehill, but a damn ant hill.

So you admit to being willfully ignorant?

Would've been even funnier if the twitter guy made Trump say "my supporters are the stupidest people in existence, just, the stupidest people", right before closing the account.

And if he or she made Trump threaten to nuke North Korea?
Title: Re: Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump's Account
Post by: ironbite on November 03, 2017, 08:24:49 pm
Willfully ignorant?  Wooooooooooooooooooow.

Ironbite-that's rich coming from you.
Title: Re: Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump's Account
Post by: niam2023 on November 03, 2017, 08:41:23 pm
No, I admit to not giving a shit.

Least of all about you and your links.

What if he made Trump declare himself Supreme Fuhrer Dictator For Life of the Beasts of the Earth and Fish of the Seas and Birds of the Air?
Title: Re: Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump's Account
Post by: dpareja on November 03, 2017, 08:51:51 pm
No, I admit to not giving a shit.

Least of all about you and your links.

What if he made Trump declare himself Supreme Fuhrer Dictator For Life of the Beasts of the Earth and Fish of the Seas and Birds of the Air?

Then I'd know it's fake because the title doesn't include the words "big" or "beautiful".
Title: Re: Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump's Account
Post by: Eiki-mun on November 03, 2017, 10:37:57 pm
Two things I want to say about this. The first and bigger one is that while I'm willing to read the first article, the second one requires that I turn off my adblocker or whitelist the website in order to see it. I'm not about to do that, so that website is off limits to me.

Also, you mention the "idea" of someone taking over Donald Trump's twitter account without even considering the fact that we have no idea what Twitter's employees can do or how much access they have. We know only that this man had access to the switch used to 'deactivate' the account in question, which doesn't even delete the contents, it simply makes them unavailable. We have no idea who, if anyone, at Twitter has the ability to change text or make false tweets in Donald Trump's name.

Actually, I have a third thing to point out: much more likely than the idea that someone working at Twitter will hack Trump's twitter account and say malicious and dangerous things is the idea that someone not working at Twitter will hack Trump's twitter account and say malicious and dangerous things. It wouldn't be the first time someone broke into a famous Twitter account, after all. Does this mean that we should get paranoid about hackers, or what have you? No, I can tell you exactly what it means.

It means the President shouldn't communicate policy through a digital social media filter that could, at any time, be hacked. Stop fucking tweeting, Donald. That's what speeches are for.
Title: Re: Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump's Account
Post by: niam2023 on November 03, 2017, 10:44:14 pm
No, I admit to not giving a shit.

Least of all about you and your links.

What if he made Trump declare himself Supreme Fuhrer Dictator For Life of the Big Beasts of the Earth and Fish of the Seas and Beautiful Birds of the Air?

Then I'd know it's fake because the title doesn't include the words "big" or "beautiful".
Title: Re: Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump's Account
Post by: Svata on November 04, 2017, 01:48:29 am
Yes. How DARE that employee enforce the terms of service of Twitter dot com. Clearly they are a madman who is abusing their power.
Title: Re: Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump's Account
Post by: Sigmaleph on November 04, 2017, 09:36:28 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/02/trump-twitter-account-offline (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/02/trump-twitter-account-offline)

It seems funny at first (at least if you're anti-Trump like I am), but it gets scary when you think about it (http://uk.businessinsider.com/heres-whats-terrifying-about-the-twitter-employee-who-temporarily-disabled-trumps-account-2017-11?r=US&IR=T).

No, this isn't scary. The actions of the individual employee give us essentially no new information. The scary part is that the president of the US uses a not-especially-secure platform under control of a private company as one his primary means of communication with the world, but we have known this for a year.

"Donald Trump is dangerously incompetent" is not news. This isn't even a new kind of incompetence, it's been on proud display since the beginning. If you are only scared now, you haven't been paying attention.
Title: Re: Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump's Account
Post by: Tolpuddle Martyr on November 05, 2017, 01:36:56 am
As far as I can work out this thread is dedicated to two salient facts.


Well, yeah - this is true for Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Tumblr and this very site. We knew this already.
Title: Re: Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump's Account
Post by: Askold on November 05, 2017, 02:39:02 am
Let's think about this logically.

What harm was done?

Trump couldn't use Twitter for 11 minutes. Would an average person even notice this? This did not silence him, he still had other means to communicate and was even back on Twitter soon enough that I don't think any harm was done.

If an angry employee had targeted some random commoner it might have been more problematic but this person specifically chose Trump knowing that this will be a funny prank and nothing more.


Also, Trump is harassing people on Twitter and using his position and large fan-base to send others to harass his targets. In a fair world he would have been banned from Twitter already (but it's not like they'll dare to ban POTUS.)
Title: Re: Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump's Account
Post by: Svata on November 05, 2017, 08:31:39 am
Not ONLY that, but the means they probably used to ban him was one of the MILLIONS of times his tweets have been reported for being in violation of Twitter's Terms of Service. If he was Joe Schlub from Maine, and not Literally the POTUS, he would have been banned MONTHS ago.
Title: Re: Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump's Account
Post by: Askold on November 05, 2017, 09:49:50 am
Isn't it more problematic that one of the most powerful men in the world is abusing the rules of Twitter and harassing people and they are allowed to get away with it just because a private company is afraid of the backlash or possible illegal action from Trump?
Title: Re: Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump's Account
Post by: Art Vandelay on November 05, 2017, 10:17:59 am
Isn't it more problematic that one of the most powerful men in the world is abusing the rules of Twitter and harassing people and they are allowed to get away with it just because a private company is afraid of the backlash or possible illegal action from Trump?
If anyone can get away with that, it's by definition going to be the most powerful men in the world.