{"id":139002,"date":"2019-11-27T16:50:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/jimmy-wales-twitter-should-ban-trump\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T16:50:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:50:35","slug":"jimmy-wales-twitter-should-ban-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/jimmy-wales-twitter-should-ban-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Wales: Twitter should ban Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMSTERDAM \u2014 Donald Trump should have been banned from Twitter \u201ca long time ago,\u201d said Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a media conference in Amsterdam, Wales said the U.S. president and other high-profile users such as entrepreneur Elon Musk were able to get away with statements on the social media platform which others would not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of stuff he says would not violate the terms of service of Twitter \u2014 hes a blowhard and he says false things,\u201d said Wales. \u201cBut hes attacked people in ways that other people couldnt get away with. I mean theyve made it very clear that they are applying the rules differently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wales was speaking at the <a href=\"https:\/\/live.ft.com\/Events\/2019\/FT-Future-of-News-Europe-2019?reference=pressem7&amp;utm_source=emh&amp;utm_medium=pressem7&amp;utm_campaign=2019pfutureofnewseurope\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FTs Future of News conference<\/a> about his site <a href=\"https:\/\/wt.social\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WT.Social<\/a> \u2014 a social media company that asks for financial contributions from members rather than being paid for by advertising.<\/p>\n<p>Wales also singled out Musk, the CEO of Tesla, over his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-49724251\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">false statement on Twitter<\/a> that a British cave diver involved in the rescue of a Thai youth football team who were trapped in a flooded cave in 2018 was a \u201cpedo guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost people would have been blocked for that,\u201d said Wales, speculating that Twitter did not do so because Musk is too valuable to the platform. \u201cIll tell you why not, because he generates a lot of page views. He generates a lot of ad revenue. I mean I dont want to be cynical. I know the people at Twitter \u2026 and I dont think that they are bad people, but I think their business model is at odds with doing the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for Twitter declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/official\/en_us\/topics\/company\/2019\/worldleaders2019.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a blog post<\/a> last month, the social media company said that all posts on it<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/jimmy-wales-twitter-should-ban-trump\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More \u2013 Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMSTERDAM \u2014 Donald Trump should have been banned from Twitte..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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