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by Someone1234 1986 days ago
They asked for an example of Trump "calling for violence" on Twitter, which I provided. Your response: That's calling for violence but the GOOD kind.

It isn't up to Twitter to decide if an individual's brand of violence calling is the good or bad kind, it violates their policies.
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GarrisonPrime 1986 days ago
Yet they didn’t suspend him for the specific example provided.

Also, I don’t think it’s so clear that threatening a defensive act could be called “inciting violence”.

If a group of criminals were parading through a neighborhood performing home invasions, I do not think it’d cross the line to warn them off with a public declaration of “our house has guns and we will protect ourselves”.

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syshum 1986 days ago
Most of the time people would look at from a legal or illegal standpoint

Trumps calls for Law and Order, to use legal remedies to clamp down on disorder in society, ethical or not, would not be considered by most a "Call for Violence"

However calls for protestors to "burn it all down" would be a "call for violence"

//for the record I do not think either should be censored, but I am a free speech absolutist so...

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