Facing renewed calls for president’s removal from service after his latest tweets on North Korea, company says move would ‘hamper discussion’Just days after Donald Trump’s Twitter taunting of Kim Jong-Un over nuclear war reignited calls for the company to ban the president from its platform, the social media company obliquely addressed the controversy in a statement defending its decision not to to censor “world leaders”. “Blocking a world leader from Twitter or removing their controversial Tweets, would hide important information people should be able to see and debate,” the company wrote in a blogpost published Friday. “It would also not silence that leader, but it would certainly hamper necessary discussion around their words and actions.” Continue reading…
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/05/donald-trump-twitter-no-ban
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