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Trump has been been permanently banned from twitter.  I agree with the sentiment (though i hope it doesn't just create a rightwing social media platform that causes yet more echo chambers).  This begs the question though...why are other really bad leaders around the world that spread dangerous BS too not also permanently suspended from twitter?

Because it's all brand new ground that no one has had to explore yet.  No one even knows how to begin doing so, except for the usual suspects who know that all paths that branch off from theirs leads straight to communism. It's such an ingrained primal fear it's a wonder it never found expression in the bible.

So, impeachment on the grounds Trump instigated insurrection apparently won't fly in court once the words are legally parsed and examined for incontrovertible evidence of intent however clear his actions are evidence enough to know what happened.

That said, Trump would have to invoke a precedent in his defence that was set when a Ku Klux Klansman charged with inciting violence against some state legislature in the 90's was found not guilty. In addition to that Trump's Republican victims of the attempted insurrection in Congress would be forced to use this defence in his name.

The potential to do damage to Republicans by forcing this issue makes the effort well worth it.  **** every last one of them and the horses they rode in on too.

Trump has been been permanently banned from twitter.  I agree with the sentiment (though i hope it doesn't just create a rightwing social media platform that causes yet more echo chambers).  This begs the question though...why are other really bad leaders around the world that spread dangerous BS too not also permanently suspended from twitter?

He's been banned now from all the major platforms, including Tik Tok and Pinterest.   

I'm trying hard here but I can't think of any other world leaders that tried to cling to power by inciting a violent insurrection against a democratically elected government. 

Names?

Then why does Trump need lawyers to represent him in Congress?

He may have lawyers but Congress is the jury.

He's been banned now from all the major platforms, including Tik Tok and Pinterest.   

I'm trying hard here but I can't think of any other world leaders that tried to cling to power by inciting a violent insurrection against a democratically elected government. 

The Chinese government has been accused of murdering prisoners from minority groups to harvest their organs for profit, and forcibly sterilizing Muslim minorities, and then gov officials go on twitter and lie about it to cover it up.

Yep, Giuliani and Dershowitz. I wonder if that crew can keep him out of jail.

The better question is will they dim the spotlight shining on the spectacle or brighten it. The answer is obvious.

To bad he couldn't get Sidney Powell as well.

The Chinese government has been accused of murdering prisoners from minority groups to harvest their organs for profit, and forcibly sterilizing Muslim minorities, and then gov officials go on twitter and lie about it to cover it up.

Trump was allowed to gaslight for four years as well, about COVID, about his achievements, his staff.  Nothing happened to his account.

His election fraud tweets started getting a disclaimer, as did the tweets of other people, including people who called it too early for Ossoff and Warnock (IOW just standard procedure and not biased).

He only lost his account when he *incited an insurgency*. 

There is absolutely no other precedent of this sort of behaviour within a democratic society in the social-media age so the argument that others do it is way off-base.