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Originally Posted by FatherSioux
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“Israel is a malignant cancerous tumor in the West Asian region that has to be removed and eradicated: it is possible and it will happen.“
That doesn’t break twitters ToS but Trumps tweets warrant a complete removal. Can you square those for me? It screams of wild bias.
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Not saying I agree with that Tweet of course but from a legal liability perspective it's a completely different world.
To use Twitter as an example, they are a US-based social media firm. It's a lot easier to get jurisdiction over them in a lawsuit for things that happen in the United States than it is internationally. Now, someone from Israel could come sue them in the US, but that would be extremely expensive for them so they'd probably try to sue in Israel, which Twitter would then dispute from a jurisdictional perspective and maybe get it tossed out...maybe there are other international laws that makes Twitter less liable...etc. etc. Point being that international liability is way more unclear than US liability for Twitter would be. It's way more risky on the US side since it would be way easier to sue them here than it would be for people from elsewhere.
It's also a commercial decision. Think about it. Your platform is literally being used to encourage people to overthrow the democratically elected government of Joe Biden and install a candidate who lost an election. Initially, the social media platforms didn't shut that down because no one believed people would actually go that far. Once they realized that these lunatics are serious, they had to remove the users because people are not going to do business with a company that allows people to create anti-Democratic insurrection to overthrow the duly elected government of the United States. That is treason. The social media platforms want nothing to do with the potential legal liability or commercial impact of supporting treason in the United States.
Outside of Twitter, some of these platforms like Facebook were literally being used to organize armed militias. Those platforms wouldn't allow, for example, ISIS to create a group to organize their terror attacks. These people who are proposing armed violence are literally domestic terrorists and they are being appropriately treated as such.