Wow, this is making me really angry.

[conuly]

Donald Trump's multiple accounts have been banned from Twitter. Parler has been removed from Google Play Store.

You know, these companies could've taken these steps months ago. Years ago, even. Those were choices they made - and now, now they're doing this? There's no cookies available now, I stress ate all of them during this pandemic. So, y'know, kudos for the effort but NO COOKIES FOR YOU, SOCIAL MEDIA.

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[cosmolinguist]

Yeah. Twitter needed to ban Trump about five years ago, and the problems with his twitter account have been talked about since before he became president. Nothing has changed since then!

I'm glad they've removed this venue for his post-presidential incitement, and it seems to have made him more mad than anything else that has happened, but it's still so little so late.

[kareina]

Perhaps it took this many years because it took that long before his attempts to incite violence/insurrection actually bore enough fruit to give them something they could put into the box on the paperwork?

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

I fear given his sue happy ways, that's got some truth to it. Now, it's pretty much no judge is going to want that and no deposition fees are going to significantly accrue.

I know more about badgers than the law.

[shadowkat]

Also they apparently did it - because...the social media giants know government regulation is around the corner, and they are acting fast to be compliant. I agree it was too little too late. If they'd done that in 2014, or event 2019, I'd have been impressed.

[sabotabby]

No cookies at all. Being forced into doing the right thing isn't the same as doing the right thing.

[rebeccmeister]

HARD AGREE.

[silveradept]

Absolutely no cookies for them for waiting until it was certain there would be no additional term and something they would be forced to directly trace back to him before swinging the banhammer. They are still pretending that freeze peach is more important than anything else, I suspect, rather than taking the excuse to properly clean house like they should have been doing all along.

[topaz_eyes]

Just like the Repuglican Party: the social media used Trump to their benefit until the liability grew too big to ignore.

[pwcorgigirl]

Preach it, sister. It was all fun and games until Frankenstein's monster started burning down the village.

[conuly]

I think we can all agree that Frankenstein's monster was never the monster.

[mindstalk]

He wasn't the only monster. He did murder innocent people because he was unhappy.

[alatefeline]

Definitely a case of closing the barn door after the horse has been stolen, ridden in a robbery, bucked someone off, and galloped off into the sunset to start a maverick herd in some moviemakers’ absurd white-supremacist fiction of the American West.

[swingandswirl]

I wish DW had a like button (not really, that way lies madness.) But this is an excellent analogy!

[alatefeline]

Thanks!

[agoodwinsmith]

I agree with you so much. Please imagine an explosive exasperated sound made with facelips.

[siderea]

Hear, hear!

[swingandswirl]

I'm sure that the incoming Dem majority, and the prospect of having to face Liz Warren and Katie Porter, among others, had nothing to do with it AT ALL. /sarcasm

[frandroid]

The inflection point was his comments about Mexicans being murderers and rapists, or shortly after that... That's when his campaign of hate started to stick.