Twitter says Trump's tweet doesn't violate its rules

[DonViejo]

by Jackie Wattles @jackiewattles
July 2, 2017: 5:44 PM ET

Twitter says President Trump's latest anti-media tweet doesn't violate its rules.

Twitter told CNN on Sunday that the company reviewed the tweet, which features a WWE video that has been edited to show Trump beating up a man with a CNN logo on his face.

Twitter said it considered three factors: the political context of the conversation surrounding the tweet, the various ways it could be interpreted and the lack of details in the tweet itself.

According to its rules, Twitter may suspend an account for a number of reasons, including if the user makes violent threats; attacks people based on race, religion, gender and more; or engages "in the targeted abuse or harassment of others."

Trump's tweet has spread like wildfire across the internet. In six hours it received 185,000 retweets, about 300,000 likes and nearly 100,000 comments. That's a lot, even for Trump, who has 33 million followers.

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http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/02/technology/trump-twitter-cnn-wwe/index.html

[jimlup]

1. Kinda seems like a "targeted abuse or harassment of others"

to me. That would be my vote if I sat on a jury for his revolting stuff.

[spanone]

2. he's their biggest client, they'll never boot him off

[mucifer]

3. If they disallowed all the video we would not be able to post a lot of humor

lots of great comedy would be gone.

[SweetieD]

4. He could repost a video of him shooting someone on 5th Avenue and they

wouldn't kick him off. His crazy antics and bot army generate a lot of ad revenue for Twitter.

[mwooldri]

5. How many of those "likes" and retweets were bots? n/t

[dlk]

6. This is What a Corporate Autocracy Looks Like

In the world of a corporate autocracy, decency takes a nosedive.

[Montauk6]

7. That's as may be but what about threatening war...? (From GQ)

While Donald Trump was running for President, his Twitter account was an obnoxious clearinghouse of racist MAGA nationalism, unfounded attacks on his opponents, and Pepe avatar replies. Since Donald Trump has become President, his Twitter account... well, honestly, it's still all of those things. But now that he has the power of the office of the presidency behind him, his Twitter has additionally become a place where random and seemingly improvised rants double as actual policy statements. When Trump tweeted about his decision to ban transgender people from the military, it came out that he hadn't even consulted with the heads of various branches of the military. He was just flying by the seat of his golf pants.

This combination of Trump's improvisational style, the immediacy of Twitter, and international politics has proven to be a potent and terrifying one. When news broke that North Korea had successfully miniaturized a nuclear warhead, what we'd hope a president would do is gather with his top foreign policy advisers and go over all the implications of what every possible statement could be. How will any statement affect our relationship with South Korea and Japan, countries that are more directly in North Korea's line of fire? How will it affect our relationships with the United Nations, an organization that just unanimously voted to sanction North Korea (which means the not-so-small feat of getting support from China)? How will North Korea receive it and are we escalating or deescalating the situation? But that's not what happened. Instead Trump "improvised" and said that we'd bring "fire" and "fury" like the world has never seen if North Korea keeps threatening us.

This is terrifying as it is, but this morning things got scarier as Trump took his threats to Twitter. Yes, Donald Trump is going to use Twitter as part of his means of handling a Nuclear crisis. This means that the most delicate of all geopolitical conflicts will likely be navigated at the whims of Trump watching Fox News.

More: https://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-twitter-account-violation-of-twitter-terms-of-service