BREAKING: Twitter Censors Trump By Completely Removing His Tweets For First Time - The Donald - America First

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[–]FediNetizen 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

There's not much he can do about it. Twitter is a private platform that can set their own standards. Also, forcing them to keep it up would be a blatant 1st Amendment violation. Part of free speech includes the right not to speak.

I've heard the arguments that Twitter should be considered a public utility, but I don't think you can make a convincing case. The Fediverse is a viable and growing alternative to Twitter. So is Gab, and Parler.

So what exactly do you think he's supposed to do about it?

[–]Nightjar 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

"There's not much he can do about it."

Step 1 - Open an account on Gab.

Step 2 - Post on Twitter to his 83 million followers "Too much political censorship on Twitter. From now on I will be posting on gab.com/donaldtrump, follow me there."

Step 3 - The rest of the Republicans follow suit.

Step 4 - Tens of millions of conservatives open Gab accounts and stop using Twitter. Daily Active Users (DAU) plummet.

Step 5 - Twitter stock drops 40% within 1 month.

Step 6 - Jack Dorsey and all top executives responsible for cancel culture are fired by shareholders.

Step 7 - New CEO is appointed, declares Twitter will be a 1st amendment platform, all legal content will be allowed.

[–]FediNetizen 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Look, I hate Twitter and would love to see them fail because they let their woke politics get in the way of running the site, but that scenario wouldn't play out the way you think it would.

If Trump declared a switch to Gab, and people followed there, Gab would completely crash from the overwhelming traffic, and more importantly Gab couldn't do anything to fix it in time. Their site runs a derivative of Mastodon, which cannot scale to meet the demands of a site anywhere near the size of Twitter. It's not something they could fix with more servers, either; the codebase just can't handle the insane amounts of users that would occupy a site anywhere near the size of Twitter.

So then Trump would have announced his move to a new site which is now unusable, and he can't connect with his followers as a result. His options now are to go back to Twitter "temporarily" where's he's now lost face because he said he was leaving prematurely, or be unable to communicate with his followers while he waits for Gab to try to build a new site that can actually scale, which would take them months.

Put simply, the scenario you've laid out would be a disaster.

[–]Nightjar 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Even if Gab crashed, all the headlines would still be "Trump leaves Twitter and moves to Gab. Millions of followers leaving Twitter for Gab are crashing site." This headline would still cause Twitter's stock to collapse and result in the firing of Dorsey within a few days. The new temporary CEO would reach out to Trump saying they will stop censoring politicians, and Trump could come back to Twitter in a few days.