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The outgoing president of the United States, Donald Trump, on Friday condemned Twitter’s decision to permanently suspend his account on the social network and said that he is considering creating his own platform to spread his messages without filters.
“They will not silence us!”, Trump exclaimed in a statement distributed by the White House after Twitter announced that it had permanently deprived him of his personal account on the social network, @realDonaldTrump.
“I predicted this would happen. We have been negotiating with several other sites, and we will have a big announcement soon, while also looking at the possibilities of building our own platform in the near future“he added.
The outgoing president said that Twitter “has gone further and further in prohibiting freedom of expression”, and accused him – conjectures through – of having “coordinated with the Democrats and the radical left” to eliminate his account.
“They have silenced me and YOU, the 75 million great patriots who voted for me,” said Trump, who also complained about the protections enjoyed by Twitter and other social networks, which exempt them from legal consequences for what third parties publish on their websites.
No profile photo or biography: this is what Trump’s Twitter account looks like, suspended.
Twitter’s move deprives Trump of your main megaphone, an account with which he has issued more than 55,000 messages for more than eleven years and which had 89 million followers.
The social network temporarily suspended Trump’s account for 12 hours this Wednesday, after the president justified in a tweet the assault on the Capitol by his sympathizers, which resulted in five deaths, at least thirteen police officers injured and all kinds of damage at the Legislative headquarters.
Twitter later returned the account to him with the warning that “any further violation of Twitter’s rules would result” in a permanent suspension, and this Friday, after analyzing Trump’s last two tweets, he decided to take that extraordinary measure.
“Following a careful review of recent tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the surrounding context, we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement to violence.” Twitter indicated in a statement posted on its official blog.
The social network explained that Trump’s tweets, in which he defended his voters and announced that he would not attend Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20, were being interpreted on social networks as “a reversal of his previous commitment” with an “orderly transition”.
Further, his messages “may serve as an encouragement to those who may be considering violent acts (by making it clear) that the investiture would be a ‘safe’ objective, because he will not attend”added Twitter.
In the context of this week’s horrific events, we made it clear Wednesday that additional violations of the Twitter Rules could result in this very course of action. https://t.co/NrANZJcAfo
– Twitter Security (@TwitterSafety) January 8, 2021
Twitter is the most definitive measure of the technological ones against Trump’s speech after the assault on the Capitol, but not the only one: both Facebook and Instagram blocked the president’s access to his account at least until the handover is complete on January 20, and Twitch and Snapchat have disabled his profile indefinitely.
Many Trump followers spread their messages less and less on Twitter and more on a recently created alternative social network called Talk, but that platform has also begun to suffer consequences after the attack on the Capitol: this Friday, Google removed its application from its virtual store.
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