{"id":68398,"date":"2021-01-08T16:50:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T21:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=68398"},"modified":"2021-01-08T23:11:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T04:11:46","slug":"twitter-permanently-bans-president-trumps-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-permanently-bans-president-trumps-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter permanently bans President Trump\u2019s account"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwitter-permanently-bans-president-trumps-account%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=68398&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"314\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1295389847-314x210.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2355621\" style=\"width: 663px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2355621\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2355621 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1295389847-653x437.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"653\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2355621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SAN ANSELMO, CALIFORNIA &#8211; JANUARY 08: The suspended Twitter account of U.S. President Donald Trump appears on an iPhone screen on January 08, 2021 in San Anselmo, California. (Photo Illustration by Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>\nUPDATED 6:40 PM PT \u2013 Friday, January 8, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Big Tech companies are targeting the President and his supporters following Wednesday&#8217;s events in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/en_us\/topics\/company\/2020\/suspension.html\">permanently removed<\/a> President Trump&#8217;s account. The Big Tech giant said he poses a &#8220;risk of further incitement of violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The social media giant <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/technology\/533439-twitter-permanently-suspends-trump\">also banned<\/a> former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and lawyer Sidney Powell. Twitter claims it is taking strong action against online content that could lead to harm offline.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After close review of recent Tweets from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CBpE1I6j8Y\">https:\/\/t.co\/CBpE1I6j8Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterSafety\/status\/1347684877634838528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I think Twitter has some feeling they&#8217;re operating in one of their favorite countries, which is China [or] possibly Venezuela \u2013 they certainly show no respect to the right of free speech,&#8221; President Trump&#8217;s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, stated. &#8220;I understand their argument &#8212; they are a private company &#8212; but beyond just the constitutional guarantee of free speech, those of us who&#8217;re Americans value the right of free speech.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Several supporters of President Trump took aim at Twitter and blasted officials for the decision.<\/p>\n<p>The former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said silencing people happens in countries like China, but not in the United States.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Silencing people, not to mention the President of the US, is what happens in China not our country. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Unbelievable?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Unbelievable<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NikkiHaley\/status\/1347693768825180160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Donald Trump Jr. likened the move to George Orwell&#8217;s iconic novel &#8216;1984&#8217; and said the late Chinese Communist Dictator Mao Tse-Tung would be proud. He called out a double-standard and said many dictators, including Iran&#8217;s Ayatollah, can have working Twitter accounts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are living Orwell\u2019s 1984. Free-speech no longer exists in America. It died with big tech and what\u2019s left is only there for a chosen few. <\/p>\n<p>This is absolute insanity! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s2z8ymFsLX\">https:\/\/t.co\/s2z8ymFsLX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonaldJTrumpJr\/status\/1347697226466828288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Several other social media outlets, such as Facebook and Snapchat, also deleted the President&#8217;s accounts from their services.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Google removed the free-speech alternative to Twitter, &#8216;Parler,&#8217; from its Google Play store. The platform &#8212; largely adopted by conservatives &#8212; is being threatened by Apple to revise its policies and to moderate &#8220;objectionable content&#8221; moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Apple is giving the platform a 24-hour window to change its policies before they pull them off of the Apple App Store.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/reports-house-speaker-pelosis-laptop-missing-w-va-delegate-charged-for-his-role-in-capitol-breach\/\">Reports: House Speaker Pelosi\u2019s Laptop Missing &amp; W. Va. Delegate Charged For His Role In Capitol Breach<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANSELMO, CALIFORNIA \u2013 JANUARY 08: The suspended Twitter &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892129,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}