Trump, Twitter “out of control”. Your profile has the number of months – Corriere.it

What? The madness of the moment that we are living is photographed (also) by one of the last tweets of Donald trump: Twitter out of control, a situation made possible thanks to the government’s gift of section 230.

The president (almost / maybe outgoing: here the point of the situation, here the map of the results) of the United States lashes out at his megaphone citing the section of a 1996 American law that the platforms are not legally responsible for the content. posted by users, and it’s not the first time. From the day of the vote – November 3 – Twitter tagged 38 percent of Trump’s 29 tweets and retweets because controversial and misleading about the modality of participation in the elections, as reported New York Times. The social network also marked departures from the president’s family, such as that of his son Donald Jr. proposed again the theory – without proof – of electoral fraud and the incitement to total war. Like his father, DTJr then yelled to censorship, a misnomer because Twitter has not been removed but is only covered by a tag and still visible to anyone who clicks View.

What is Twitter doing? You are applying your own rules, among which the one of the false declarations on the operation of the voting and on the attribution of a victory that still does not exist, obviously focusing on the president and his circle (a quick search is enough to realize how much of the rest of the users are free to express themselves in these terms).

How? Kurt Wagner recalled this in Bloomberg, then breaking the news: when Trump violates the rules is treated as a world leader whose statements are in the public interestand therefore they are not canceled, they are only tagged or slowed down. The same happens with your profile, which despite repeated violations is not suspended or prohibited, as it could happen to any of us. The news, confirmed by Twitter a Bloomberg, that if Trump leaves the White House in January, he will no longer enjoy any protection as a former leader and will be treated like any ordinary citizen-user. Will he be suspended if he continues to break the rules, as his former strategist Steve Bannon just did? Or, paradoxically, will he benefit from the return to the status of private citizen and will not even be labeled, as he did before 2016, when he had already begun to express himself in a controversial and violent way?

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