About a month ago, Twitter indefinitely blocked Donald Trump’s account. The now former president of the United States, who is facing a second impeachment, is locked out for life and will not be able to return to Twitter under any circumstances.
This has been confirmed by Ned Segal, Twitter’s CFO, in an interview with CNBC. In it, Negal explained that “as our policies work, when one is removed from the platform, one is removed from the platform, be it a commentator, a CFO or a former or current public official.”
Furthermore, Negal added that “our policies are designed to ensure that people do not incite violence. And if someone does, we have to remove them from service. And our policies do not allow people to return. ” In other words, and always according to Negal, this means that even if Trump were re-elected in a future election, he would not be able to return to Twitter.
For the CEO of Twitter “it was the right decision”
After Twitter indefinitely blocked Donald Trump’s account, Jack Dorsey, CEO of the social network, spoke out about it. Dorsey justified the blocking and assured that “it was the right decision”. The CEO of Twitter explained that they made the decision with the best information they had, based on risk and security both on and off the social network.
However, Dorsey opined that the block had “real and significant” implications and that, at the social network level, it was ” our failure to promote healthy conversation.” He also confessed that it set “a precedent that I consider dangerous: the power that an individual or a corporation has over a part of the global public conversation.”
Faced with the blocking of Twitter, many of Donald Trump’s followers moved to Parler, who ended up losing the support of Amazon, Apple and Google, ergo their applications and the platform’s servers, which at that time used AWS (Amazon). On January 21, Parler stopped working. Telegram was also the protagonist , claiming to have blocked “dozens of public channels with calls to violence for thousands of subscribers.”