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Trump threatens social media because of course

Kyoshi Frost Wolf

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-threatens-social-media-outlets-with-regulation-closure-after-fact-check-added-to-tweet/ar-BB14Fvxw?OCID=ansmsnnews11

Oooooh what a shock. After years of Trump spending as much time lying on the Internet as he does golfing, Twitter finally did some kind of action against him. This was long overdue but the old saying is better late than never for a reason I suppose. Personally I would have done this when he casually Tweeted veiled threats of nuking other countries but that's my opinion. Twitter has added a sort of fact checker thing to Trump's Tweets. It is a simple way to investigate what Trump is saying to find out that he is most likely lying, like he always does.

By all means this is something Twitter is allowed to do and with Trump's immense history of spouting nonsense at every turn, I think it was definitely needed. So what does Mr. Trumpy do in response? Oh he just threatens social media with regulations and closures. So yeah, typical trash from the trash president. Pretty sure almost everyone, regardless of political views, is against any kind of major government regulation of the internet so if he wants to try it, that will be fun to watch. Hard to tell what Trump will actually do or not since a lot of the time he is simply talking but never walking. He is a corrupt businessman after all.

That's all there is to say. Just Trump threatening to get the government involved with internet regulation all because a site actually acknowledges that he lies all the time. Yay for us.

UPDATE: Yup, he's already doing it. Such a wonderful "leader".

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-is-set-to-announce-an-executive-order-against-social-media-companies/ar-BB14GKRP?OCID=ansmsnnews11

 

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PoisonClaw

In Trumps deluded mind, he still believes himself to be the all power overload of mankind, so I just say let him try. He's such an addict to Twitter that his Tweets have actually been categorized as Official White House Documents, so nothing will ever come of it. He's just blustering to try and get re-elected, because as we all know the only thing Trump cares about is himself.  

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JonasDarkmane

The fact check thing was really stupid. I checked it myself, there was no fact checking. Only "according to CNN" and a few other news outlets. That is not fact checking, that is not even asserting a fact, it is basically the same as saying "allegedly". Is it funny? Yes, it kinda is, it is basically Trump getting trolled. But does it hold any actual sway or is it long term feasible? Most likely not, especially if Twitter is too scared of asserting facts themselves and has to delicate responsibility to news outlets (which, btw, are not fact checkers)~

 

 

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Kyoshi Frost Wolf
2 minutes ago, Alastor said:

The fact check thing was really stupid. I checked it myself, there was no fact checking. Only "according to CNN" and a few other news outlets. That is not fact checking, that is not even asserting a fact, it is basically the same as saying "allegedly". Is it funny? Yes, it kinda is, it is basically Trump getting trolled. But does it hold any actual sway or is it long term feasible? Most likely not, especially if Twitter is too scared of asserting facts themselves and has to delicate responsibility to news outlets (which, btw, are not fact checkers)~

 

 

This is true, but Trump lies all the time. That is also true. Him threatening regulation of social media because of this one thing is really what I find hilarious. That's the main point. Him threatening to do something so stupid that would result in extreme backlash from most people all because of something that one site does. It is comical.

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JonasDarkmane
1 minute ago, Kyoshi said:

This is true, but Trump lies all the time. That is also true. Him threatening regulation of social media because of this one thing is really what I find hilarious. That's the main point. Him threatening to do something so stupid that would result in extreme backlash from most people all because of something that one site does. It is comical.

I agree with you that wanting to regulate twitter is really stupid and it is a stupid response and was mostly born out of the recent fact check. The most reasonable and justifiable thing that he could do would be to strip twitter of the protections of Section 230 as they've violated those sections. But Trump did say regulate, which is wholly different and just plain dangerous. 
No thank you Cheetos in Chief~

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Photon Jet

Yeah, there's no way he would shut down social media because he doesn't have the power to do that. If he did then there'd be a worldwide riot and a revolution combined.

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Splashee

I wouldn't be sad if Twitter got shut down because of this!

 

Because:

  1. I don't like Twitter
  2. I don't like social media
  3. I don't like Trump
  4. I don't like Twitter because Trump lives there
  5. Twitter is Trump and Trump is Twitter

Simple, he would only shoot himself in the foot by removing his only special ability, to use Twitter.

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Kyoshi Frost Wolf

Update on this. Turns out he is already going forward with something against these sites. Hilarious how he did essentially nothing during this pandemic (and he sat around for months doing nothing while it made its way here) but Twitter calls him out on his lies and immediately he jumps forward to go against them.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-is-set-to-announce-an-executive-order-against-social-media-companies/ar-BB14GKRP?OCID=ansmsnnews11

Depending on how far he takes this, it will cause extreme backlash.

 

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Photon Jet
10 hours ago, Princess of Luck 🍀⚡🔥 said:

Everything Trump does faces backlash. Don;t think it's gonna change anything tho

It'll be like Article 13, the Millenium Bug and the 2012 doomsday scenario. Nothing will happen.

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Splashee
22 hours ago, Kyoshi said:

Update on this. Turns out he is already going forward with something against these sites. Hilarious how he did essentially nothing during this pandemic (and he sat around for months doing nothing while it made its way here) but Twitter calls him out on his lies and immediately he jumps forward to go against them.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-is-set-to-announce-an-executive-order-against-social-media-companies/ar-BB14GKRP?OCID=ansmsnnews11

Depending on how far he takes this, it will cause extreme backlash.

 

No Trump! No! Twitter is your friends! :worry:

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TotallyNotNyx
1 minute ago, Splashee said:

No Trump! No! Twitter is your friends! :worry:

Twitter is where all you adult Bronies go and share NSFW pony pictures :P

Edited by Princess of Luck 🍀⚡🔥
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