Banning him from Twitter is not enough; he should be banned for good. Being patient for 14 more days is not enough; he should be gone tomorrow. And calling this a protest is not enough; this was a terrorist attack.

Jan 7, 2021 · 7:40 AM UTC

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Banning and censorship is plain wrong Marianne. Disappointing coming from you.
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Marianne, if you are good with a private corporation censoring the Bad Man president, will you be good when they censor the Good Man president? What if the voters choose an anti-corporate populist? And Twitter says we won't give him a platform?
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I am against censorship. I don't fear differences in thought.
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Every sentence in this tweet silly, wrong-headed or incorrect.
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I could not disagree more. They're just words. Horrible and inciteful. If they are forced elsewhere they'll move further rt. They will be even more walled off in an endless feedback loop. This censorship has a parodoxical impact that is dangerous and a huge mistake. Short-sighted
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Any concern that private entities are powerful enough to censor political leaders and the precedents this sets for the future (suppressing a legitimate leader/activist leader in the name of peace/what's right for the country)?
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But please, dont, as the USA usually does, go hard core in the opposite direction and push for legislation that should "prevent" such events in the future, while they actually just inflate the security and police state. Yesterday was a failure of police organization and training
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"Do you trust these monopolistic megacorporations? I don't." - @caitoz. Tech monopolies accountable only to wealthy shareholders (and not even bound themselves by the 1st Amendment) are hardly competent to regulate public speech. #FreeSpeech caitlinjohnstone.substack.co…
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Ban him from the country
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We just have to be honest. You are trying to be a thought leader on the left and you have to stop with the absolutely shit takes. You influence people. This was in no way a "terrorist attack" FFS.
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