Another Trump tweet breaks the rules

The Twitter terms of service that all users sign give them broad power over the content of posters. This includes the ability to delete and annotate posts as they did with Trump’s.

But hey if you think I’m wrong, cite some resources backing that claim.

 

Not at all. I don’t need Twitter to hold my hand. I know dangerous misinformation when I see it.

That said there are many that don’t view Trump with a critical eye and will accept his claims at face value. I think it’s good, however likely ineffective, that efforts are made to curb the damage he is doing.

 

In my biased view, this has happened to some of my manuscripts in the past (not the public misinformation part, of course). With high-impact factor journals, often they reject manuscripts without peer review, based purely on the editor's opinion of the work. Is it often unfair? Yes. Does it prevent me from sending the manuscript to another journal to be published? No.

If trump doesn't like twitter, he has plenty of other platforms he can use to disseminate his thoughts.

 

All i see here is another social media platform trying to drive politics through censorship. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

Everything that comes from a politician is to be presumed false. If some opinions are silenced while others get delivered unobstructed, that is far more damaging. How much dumber do we want our society?

 

All I see is Trump spreading dangerous misinformation and a small step taken by Twitter to curb the damage.

 

While that may be your view I don’t believe it to be shared by the general public. One only needs to look to Trump’s base to find people eating up provable lies without a second thought.

Trump hasn’t been silenced. His tweet is still available for all to see.

 

Trumps base does not have a monopoly on gullibility. His opinion in this case is not unreasonable. His rose-colored view of covid is still closer to the truth than the oppositions extreme view. Was anyone calling for a complete shutdown silenced?

 

You’re correct. Gullibility can be found on both sides. I was demonstrating that your claim that politicians are presumed to be lying was not representative of the general public.
His opinion is one backed by demonstrably false claims and can lead to people making poor decisions when it comes to a global pandemic. As such his opinion is dangerous misinformation.
“Rose-colored view” is a generous way of saying “down-played the severity of” at every possible chance.
Was Trump silenced?

 

lol your complaining about a measly 40,000? This nit picking is getting out of hand

 

40,000 people is a significant number, but maybe for the party of “It is what it is.” that’s just the cost of doing business.
The factually incorrect number isn’t even the largest issue, it’s the intent behind it. Deceiving people into believing this pandemic is no worse than the seasonal flu is irresponsible for any one person to do. Downright dangerous when coming from POTUS.

 

Still didn't say it was like the flu. Simply said we would learn to live with it like we do with the flu

 

He was making an obvious attempt to compare the severity of the pandemic to the seasonal flu. How ever you choose to cut it, this turd stinks.
His misleading words are dangerous.

 

Trumps down playing covid is still closer to the truth than the oppositions "shut everything down" view. Did those tweets get removed? What I see is abuse of power and a utility taking sides.

 

I’ll ask again. I assume you’re missing the question and not avoiding intentionally. Were Trump’s tweets removed?

 

More proof Tweeter is a publisher and should not get immunity protections.

There is nothing at all wrong with that opinion. We have in fact learned to live with Covid, and will get through it..

What in fact is wrong or incorrect about this opinion? What do people take issue with?

 

Sure. Would it surprise you to learn that based on our best understanding of the science to date, around 90,000 people die in the US annually from influenza induced cardiovascular events? That’s cardiovascular alone, not counting deaths from respiratory effects of influenza.

 

My apologies, I am multitasking and did miss it. No. His tweet was not removed. Twitter is pushing boundaries. For the record, I don't have twitter. I don't listen to Trumps briefings, speeches, of read his messages.

 

WRONG!

There is no equivalent to the FCC for the Internet. You would think this would be obvious since there is no transmission over the "public airwaves" to access the www. And cable is exempt too.

 

It’d surprise me less if you provided evidence to back that claim. The CDC’s numbers don’t appear to support that.

 

Thanks for the clarifications. I don’t use Twitter either, but I do check in on Trump’s Twitter on occasion out of morbid curiosity. I disagree that Twitter is pushing any boundaries here though.

 

I am glad that when Trump attempts to invent his own reality regarding COVID that he is called out on his dreaming.

 

That has to be frustrating. Now, after rejection of your manuscript by editors, do you

My inclusion of the public labeling of misinformation was intentional and key to the discussion. Would you be as sanguine if your work was labeled misinformation?

We agree on that but that isn’t my point. It’s a strawman.

 

Oh please tell us what the difference is? They have the same symptoms and can be caught the same way and BOTH can be deadly it doesn't matter if it's one person or a million.

And btw Obama deceived the public with shovel ready jobs , or keeping your doctor but then again he was a Democrat

 

If he made his work publicly available I think he would have to accept the possibility of it being publicly identified as misinformation, no?