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Twitter Flags Trump Tweet of Protesters For Including 'Threat of Harm' (thehill.com) 382

Posted by BeauHD from the abusive-behavior dept.
Twitter added a warning to one of Trump's tweets today threatening protesters seeking to establish an "autonomous zone" in Washington, D.C. The social media company is labeling it as a "threat of harm." The Hill reports: "This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about abusive behavior. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public's interest for the Tweet to remain accessible," reads the advisory added to Trump's tweet. The president had tweeted Tuesday morning that any attempt to establish an "autonomous zone" in the nation's capital "will be met with serious force." Twitter added a notice roughly six hours later stating the tweet violated its policies.

"We've placed a public interest notice on this Tweet for violating our policy against abusive behavior, specifically, the presence of a threat of harm against an identifiable group," the platform said. "Per our policies, this Tweet will remain on the service given its relevance to ongoing public conversation," Twitter added. Users can no longer like or reply to Trump's tweet, but they can retweet it with comment, according to the platform.
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  • This has to be taken seriously (Score:3, Insightful)

    by fermion ( 181285 ) on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @05:46PM (#60219520) Homepage Journal
    Because Trump stated explicitly that he does not kid.

    I don't know what these wackos in the autonomous zone are doing. When I go the pacific northwest it always seems the kids are bored and unemployed are doing something silly, mostly spending the day smoking weed, making Cheech and Chong look like productive citizens.

    But we do have a constitution, which set broad freedoms on what we do in an otherwise civilized county, so if they are not actively intimidating anyone, like the right wing terrorists did the other day in Bethel, just leave them alone.

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by darkain ( 749283 )

      You and I must be in an entirely different PNW then. Remember that up here is Microsoft HQ, Amazon HQ, Facebook, Google, Intel, and many other tech giants (plus other multi-national non-tech companies like Starbucks HQ). These companies all produce some of the highest earners in the world, both per-capita of employee, and highest single earners. That isn't exactly what I would call "unemployed", especially now with the pandemic, and all of these jobs transitioning to WFH with ease, unlike other industries.

      • That isn't exactly what I would call "unemployed", especially now with the pandemic, and all of these jobs transitioning to WFH with ease, unlike other industries.

        Not to defend the "Cheech and Chong" guy, but...

        Washington unemployment numbers. [wa.gov] Worse than the national average.
        Oregon unemployment numbers. [oregonlive.com] Worse than the national average.

        Hate to burst your bubble, but the PNY isn't faring all that well in terms of employment.

    • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

      by ZipprHead ( 106133 )

      That's the funny thing. I live very close to CHOP. Everything you see on FoxNews and what comes out of the president's mouth is not happening. It's basically a bunch of hippies sitting in a park and painting everything.

      Trump is actively trying to make it seem worse so he can politicize it. It's sad. Right now because of his rhetoric, we have white militia's threatening to come into Seattle and "take care of the issue."

      • Comment removed based on user account deletion

      • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

        by iggymanz ( 596061 )

        Liar.

        There has been murder, rape, theft, vandalism, assualt and battery. Lawless savages need police to stop them with whatever force is appropriate, incarcerate them, and then the courts can handle them if they survive suitable application of force (e.g. hypothetically one of them attacks the police with a weapon)

      • It got so bad that even the Democrat mayor wants to end it after someone died in a shooting and neither police nor EMTs could get to the victim.
      • Yeah, it's not like anyone got shot to death and a violent mob refused to let the police help [king5.com] or anything.

      • Total lies. Drop by at about midnight by yourself. See how you like it then.

    • Uh wrong. You can't shut down public road ways, with out a permit. You can't keep emergency services out of an area when people have been shot. You can't threaten people (extort) for protection. You can't overrun a police precinct, oh wait you can if your mayor says the only way to have peace is for the police to leave, but still illegal.

      This is what is in Seattle right now in the CHOP. (mostly at night)

      If this is what President Trump is saying will never happen he is correct in saying it. He is sayin

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by NFN_NLN ( 633283 )

      > But we do have a constitution, which set broad freedoms on what we do in an otherwise civilized county, so if they are not actively intimidating anyone, like the right wing terrorists did the other day in Bethel, just leave them alone.

      Finally a true Slashdoter. Someone with an opinion and no fundamental understanding of what is going on. I applaud your effort to hold yourself to the high standards of Slashdot.

      Now... for everyone else:

      There's been (3) shootings incidents in CHAZ and at least (1) death

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by HiThere ( 15173 )

      You're being foolish. It's the job of the mayor and the police to enforce the local laws. They can ask for outside help, and this is done when necessary. It's not the job of the president...and he has no right to claim it.

      That said, autonomous zones don't work. This has been proven repeatedly. But often the best way to convince people is to allow them to prove it true by experiment. I think Seattle's mayor probably took the right approach.

      The real problem is that for many people their experiences with

  • What the fuck! (Score:5, Insightful)

    by SirAstral ( 1349985 ) on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @05:49PM (#60219530)

    The Police are force. Just saying I am going to call the police is a literal threat of harm itself.

    What the fuck kinda whacky world are we in?

    People in power telling someone at any time that there will be consequences to actions is a threat of harm... it happens every fucking time a politician speaks about law!

    This is just tripping and getting stupid. Whether you like or hate Trump Twitter is just making a caricature of themselves here. What a joke.. .nothing harms your message more than to overplay your hand and water it down to the point where people no longer take you seriously.

    • Re: (Score:2, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward

      Here is the terribly threatening tweet in question:

      There will never be an “Autonomous Zone” in Washington, D.C., as long as I’m your President. If they try they will be met with serious force!

      Simple statement of fact. One that probably 90% of Seattle residents wish their local leaders would support but can't say so because they'll get fired/beat up/burned out by leftist thugs and thought police.

      • Twitter's response cannot even be called free, in the sense of them exercising their free speech to add disclaimers or even stop a post. Not when it is in a context of politicians threatening to hurt them via 230 changes, or even a breakup of the company itself.

        I like to think it is as they say, and not the silencing of political enemies on behalf of powerful government interests holding a sword of Damoclese over their head.

      • The Seattle CHOP turned one of the most peaceful and prosperous tracts of land in human history and turned it into a negative GDP, violent, racially segregated zone that could serve as the set of I Am Legend 2. Setting up a CHOP/CHAZ anywhere is a threat of violence.

    • The same whacky world where twitter suspended accounts for telling journalists to learn to code. Saying that to coal miners is just fine though.

      • Yea, the double standards are always there, it's in infuriating when only one side gets to trash talk with impunity. It's one of the reasons that more speech is the correct response to speech you don't like rather than going down the suppression route. It's only going to end horribly for the people that did it.

    • The Police are force. Just saying I am going to call the police is a literal threat of harm itself.

      Only in the USA is calling the police a threat of harm.

      • The Police are force. Just saying I am going to call the police is a literal threat of harm itself.

        Only in the USA is calling the police a threat of harm.

        No, that's what it is everywhere. I don't care what kind of unicorns and fairies land you live in, the police are force. They will likely try to be nice about whatever it is (even in the US), but ultimately you either do what they want or they force you to do something, often at the barrel of a gun.

        The idea that Trump is "threatening" them is laughable. Yes, he's telling them that the part of the government that deals with idiots like them will be put into play legitimately if they continue what they're

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by narcc ( 412956 )

      The right hates free speech when it's used against them, and loves it when it protects them.

      It's a little transparent, guys. We get it -- you can't compete in the marketplace of ideas without a massive handicap.

      What a joke.. .nothing harms your message more than to overplay your hand and water it down to the point where people no longer take you seriously.

    • He says enough stuff that's explicitly, unequivocally against the rules that they really don't need to tag the borderline cases like this one. It only serves to dilute their warning.
       
      I wish I could say it would piss people off enough that some of them stop using Twitter, but you know they'll continue to use it and just bitch about how terrible it is.

    • Has Twitter ever flagged any prominent D politician tweets, or is something reserved for Trump?

  • La la laa, nothing makes sense anymore. I can't wait until we allow feelings to trump science. Maybe THEN that bullshit law of gravity can be taken off the records!

  • Or Trump's twitter feed, you decide.

  • Twitter may be free, but it is no longer free. (Score:5, Informative)

    by Fly Swatter ( 30498 ) on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @06:18PM (#60219652) Homepage
    If twitter wants to be the speech police, maybe it is time to de-fund them as well.

    -What's a twitter?

    • Just stop paying attention to them (Score:4, Insightful)

      by rsilvergun ( 571051 ) on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @06:38PM (#60219724)
      if you have a Twitter account delete it and all the data. Don't click Twitter related links. Don't care about Twitter in the slightest. If you're a Trump supporter encourage him to get off the platform and move to something else (Gab?).

      If you want to defund them then remember, you are the product.

    • -What's a twitter?

      A fitting statement. Last time I heard it it was from a computer company pretending computers didn't exist.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by narcc ( 412956 )

      Not the sharpest pencil in the box, I see.

      Twitter isn't funded by taxpayer dollars, so you can only 'defund' them by deleting your account, avoiding the website, and boycotting their advertisers.

      But you won't because you need your daily taste of mushroom. Thus, twitter lives on. Your hypocrisy fuels the machine.

      • I have twitter on my adblock list, have had for several years. So yes they can be de-funded by the people. No politicians needed, just self control.

        Next time don't assume things before thinking you won an argument and name calling. Arrogant and ignorant is no way to go through life.

    • If twitter wants to be the speech police, maybe it is time to de-fund them as well.

      Hear, hear! Let's remove all public funding of Twitter, forthwith!

  • Wrecking my brain why a toddler replies more toughtfully :
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]

  • Poor Donald. Now Fake Twitter is after him again just like the Fake Media, Fake scientists, Fake doctors, Fake economists, Fake generals...

  • Interesting that the warning got full play, but the ACTUAL Trump tweet was chopped.

    Reproduced in full here:

    There will never be an “Autonomous Zone” in Washington, D.C., as long as I’m your President. If they try they will be met with serious force!

  • I thought the whole country was an autonomous zone.

    • Indeed, sir.

      Freedom is not only never really free, it's downright inconvenient for the republic.

      Yet without it, there's no representative republic... and, totalitarian regimes certainly perform better in many aspects of life, including the pandemic.

      "Would you trade all the days from then to now, for one chance to be foolishly free???"

  • Aren't they autonomous zones? Trump has to bomb all the embassies in DC now, right?

  • Nothing has actually happened here. Sure, there is an actual situation in Seattle playing itself out but that hasn't changed much from where it was yesterday. Then some loud guy has tapped out some words about what MIGHT happen with that scenario onto his phone and they've been published on a public forum. Some people like those words and some people don't. We then start having an argument about who likes the words and who doesn't. Now I am making a comment about the argument about the liking or the not lik

  • When there is a treat of violence "Tech Corps" should issue a warning to protect them selves from legal liability. Trump is trying use the law to censor tech by allowing legal action at every little thing, Trump knows American justice requires money to play, If you have money you can outspend your legal opponent and win. Justice has nothing to do with the outcome, just money.

  • More unrealistic than PBS Kids content (Score:4, Insightful)

    by slashmydots ( 2189826 ) on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @08:58PM (#60220246)
    They flagged me for "bullying and harassment" for tweeting at a convicted murderer that I hope he dies in prison. What they need to realize over at fantasy Twitter land where everything is rainbows and everyone gets along, back in reality, there are bad people and people need to call them out.

  • Announcing an appropriate police response (Score:4, Insightful)

    by sabbede ( 2678435 ) on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @07:16AM (#60221226)
    is not some radical threat of harm, it is a declaration of intent to enforce the law. If Twitter cannot tell the difference between the nation's chief executive declaring that Constitutionally valid law enforcement action will be taken in response to criminal activity and an unlawful threat of violence, I don't know what to say.

    Well, ok, I do. It's, "That's the biggest load of BS I've heard in a while. Twitter is expressing a partisan bias in an election year, calling into question the validity of section 230 protections."

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