New York Times: It's Time to Pull the Plug on Trump's Tweets

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: January 26, 2017 at 1:05:42 PM EST
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] New York Times: It's Time to Pull the Plug on Trump's Tweets
>
>
> New York Times: It's Time to Pull the Plug on Trump's Tweets
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/business/dealbook/its-time-to-pull-the-plug-on-trumps-tweets.html
>
>      To try to get another perspective on whether Mr.  Dorsey
>    should toss Mr. Trump off Twitter, I reached out to Lauren
>    Weinstein. He is the co-founder of People for Internet
>    Responsibility. For Mr. Weinstein the fundamental question is
>    whether Mr. Trump is being treated differently from other
>    Twitter users. "My view is that he has been and still is being
>    treated differently, permitted to continue tweeting where any
>    ordinary user would have been either temporarily or
>    permanently banned long ago," he emailed me.  His logic is
>    that Mr.  Trump's tweeting does, in fact, violate several
>    aspects of Twitter's terms of service, including his
>    "continuing direct attacks on individuals," and the way those
>    tweets inspire "massive secondary attacks from his followers
>    and others." He also is concerned that Mr.  Trump's tweets
>    about individual corporations are hurting their stock prices,
>    in the short run, and might lead to long term stock
>    manipulation or "blackmail." Any "ordinary" user would have
>    been kicked off long ago, Mr. Weinstein wrote me.  "I realize
>    that Trump represents a cash cow of sorts to Twitter in terms
>    of visibility and engagement, but they need to show some
>    spine, or else admit that their T.O.S." -- terms of service --
>    "is just a paper tiger that's all show and no substance," he
>    concluded.



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