Snapchat bans Trump account .. Twitter administrator: suspending the president's account is a dangerous precedent, but it is a correct decision

Twitter Executive Director Jack Dorsey said that the decision to block the account of US President Donald Trump was a correct decision, but a dangerous precedent, while the administration of the Snapchat application announced permanently banning the account of the US President, after it was suspended last week after storming the Congress building last Wednesday.

In a series of tweets on his account, Dorsey added that he is not proud to block President Trump's account, which has more than 88 million followers, "but the decision was taken based on physical safety threats inside and outside Twitter."

He added that "having to block the Trump account has real and important repercussions, and that the ban is in fact a failure for everyone to promote healthy discussions."

I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban @realDonaldTrump from Twitter, or how we got here.

After a clear warning we'd take this action, we made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter.

Was this correct?

- jack (@jack) January 14, 2021

Twitter permanently suspended Trump's account last Friday, two days after a crowd of US President’s supporters stormed the Congress building, in riots that left 5 people dead and destroyed the building and shocked the United States and damaged its reputation in the world.

Twitter justified the decision to permanently suspend Trump's account by preventing further incitement to violence on the part of the US President.

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Twitter was Trump's favorite platform to announce decisions, dismissals or positions, attack the media, or insult his opponents on a daily basis, and Twitter's decision sparked mixed political reactions in the United States and abroad.

Trump had tried to circumvent Twitter's decision to suspend his account by tweeting using the official account of the President of the United States on Twitter, but the platform quickly deleted his tweets.

Twitter told AFP that "using another account in an attempt to circumvent" an account that has been suspended is "against our rules."

And CNN reported that officials in the US President’s administration tried to use accounts run by Trump’s election campaign on Twitter to post tweets in his name.

The US news station added that Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner intervened to prevent Trump accounts from being opened on alternative social media sites that constitute a haven for those it called extremists.

So far, more than 12 social media sites have blocked or restricted Trump's access to his accounts.

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- Freud (@FreudKsa) January 10, 2021

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In a related context, Snapchat announced yesterday that it will permanently ban President Trump's account with it.

US media reported that the company made it clear that it had decided to ban the account permanently "in order to preserve public safety, and based on his (Trump) attempts to spread misleading information, hate speech and incitement to violence."

Snapchat announced the suspension of Trump's account indefinitely after his supporters stormed the Congress building on January 6.

After the break-in, many social media platforms - most notably Facebook and Instagram - restricted access to Trump accounts, which are followed by tens of millions of people in the world.

Google and YouTube

And Google decided to block, starting January 14, all political ads and any content indicating the storming of Congress by protesters supporting President Trump.

The ban includes various Google advertising platforms, including YouTube.

Google announced that a new version of its policies - which relate to sensitive events - came into effect after the congressional storming.

On Tuesday, YouTube temporarily banned Trump's channel for violating the company's policies, and the ban will be extended for at least a week, and comments on Trump's channel have been suspended indefinitely for the same reasons.

On the other hand, a spokeswoman for Facebook told Reuters that since the congressional attack, the site has witnessed an increase in signals suggesting the possibility of violence linked to efforts to challenge the outcome of the US presidential election.

She explained that the signals tracked by Facebook include digital bulletins promoting events, and some of them include calls to bear arms or the badges of militias or hate groups.

On Wednesday, Texas State Attorney Ken Paxton said he had asked Facebook, Google and Twitter to explain the reasons for imposing a ban on Trump's accounts.

The public prosecutor added that the move by these companies "appears to be coordinated" and aims "to silence those whose political speech and beliefs do not coincide with the leaders of major technology companies."