{"id":5416,"date":"2021-01-08T19:27:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T00:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=5416"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:27:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T00:27:52","slug":"silicon-valley-twitter-censors-shut-down-president-trumps-account-so-arrogant-they-seek-to-silence-even-the-president-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=5416","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley Twitter Censors Shut Down President Trump&#8217;s Account: So Arrogant They Seek to Silence Even the President of the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dialog\/feed?app_id=9869919170&amp;link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2021%2F01%2F08%2Ftechnology%2Ftwitter-trump-suspended.html%3Fsmid%3Dfb-share&amp;name=Twitter%20Permanently%20Suspends%20Trump&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/censored-gag-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/censored-gag-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/censored-gag-1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/censored-gag-1-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/censored-gag-1-500x236.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2021%2F01%2F08%2Ftechnology%2Ftwitter-trump-suspended.html%3Fsmid%3Dtw-share&amp;text=Twitter%20Permanently%20Suspends%20Trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"mailto:?subject=NYTimes.com%3A%20Twitter%20Permanently%20Suspends%20Trump&amp;body=From%20The%20New%20York%20Times%3A%0A%0ATwitter%20Permanently%20Suspends%20Trump%0A%0ATwitter%2C%20the%20president%E2%80%99s%20preferred%20megaphone%2C%20cited%20%E2%80%9Cthe%20risk%20of%20further%20incitement%20of%20violence%E2%80%9D%20and%20said%20two%20tweets%20he%20posted%20on%20Friday%20violated%20its%20Glorification%20of%20Violence%20Policy.%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2021%2F01%2F08%2Ftechnology%2Ftwitter-trump-suspended.html%3Fsmid%3Dem-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Silicon Valley Twitter Censors Shut Down President Trump&#8217;s Account: So Arrogant They Seek to Silence Even the President of the United States<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OAKLAND, Calif. \u2014 Twitter said on Friday that it had permanently suspended President Trump from its service \u201cdue to the risk of further incitement of violence,\u201d effectively cutting him off from his favorite megaphone for reaching his supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have determined that these tweets are in violation of the Glorification of Violence Policy and the user @realDonaldTrump should be immediately permanently suspended from the service,\u201d Twitter said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/en_us\/topics\/company\/2020\/suspension.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a>.https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1347684877634838528&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2021%2F01%2F08%2Ftechnology%2Ftwitter-trump-suspended.html&amp;siteScreenName=nytimes&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspension comes a day after Mr. Trump was barred from using Facebook for the remainder of his term, and after a number of other digital platforms limited Mr. Trump from their services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advertisement<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/08\/technology\/twitter-trump-suspended.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimes#after-story-ad-1\">Continue reading the main story<\/a>https:\/\/181214c01f2fa3968a0818f078e960d8.safeframe.googlesyndication.com\/safeframe\/1-0-37\/html\/container.html<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.Trump and Social Media<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/07\/technology\/trump-social-media.html?action=click&amp;module=RelatedLinks&amp;pgtype=Article\">The President Is Losing His PlatformsJan. 7, 2021<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/07\/technology\/facebook-trump-ban.html?action=click&amp;module=RelatedLinks&amp;pgtype=Article\">Facebook Bars Trump Through End of His TermJan. 7, 2021<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/06\/technology\/capitol-twitter-facebook-trump.html?action=click&amp;module=RelatedLinks&amp;pgtype=Article\">Twitter and Facebook Lock Trump\u2019s Accounts After Violence on Capitol HillJan. 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kate Conger is a technology reporter in San Francisco, covering privacy, policy and labor. Previously, she wrote about cybersecurity for Gizmodo and TechCrunch. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kateconger\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@kateconger<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley Twitter Censors Shut Down President Trump&#8217;s Account: So Arrogant They Seek to Silence Even the President of the United States OAKLAND, Calif. \u2014 Twitter said on Friday that it had permanently suspended President Trump from its service \u201cdue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=5416\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,2293,406],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5418,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions\/5418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}