Two things can be true.
We could both be getting increasingly myopic and entrenched.
Two things can be true.
We could both be getting increasingly myopic and entrenched.
FTA: "After Twitter banned President Trump and other tech companies followed suit, Ed Driscoll dryly remarked that “this could be a very big mistake on their part.” Ed may be an early frontrunner for the Understatement of the Year Award, because this crackdown on Trump – not to mention the 74 million Americans who voted to reelect him – could prove to be a historic fulcrum.
Let’s begin with the claim by Twitter that banning the President of the United States was necessary “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” Such an assertion assumes as fact that what happened Wednesday at the Capitol was a direct consequence of Trump’s “incitement.” However, University of Wisconsin law professor Ann Althouse took the time to read the entire transcript of Trump’s remarks at Wednesday’s “Save America March,” and found nothing that could fairly be considered as an incitement to violence. What the president actually said, instead, was that “everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard” – which is, in fact, what most of them did.
FTA: "After Twitter banned President Trump and other tech companies followed suit, Ed Driscoll dryly remarked that “this could be a very big mistake on their part.” Ed may be an early frontrunner for the Understatement of the Year Award, because this crackdown on Trump – not to mention the 74 million Americans who voted to reelect him – could prove to be a historic fulcrum.
Let’s begin with the claim by Twitter that banning the President of the United States was necessary “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” Such an assertion assumes as fact that what happened Wednesday at the Capitol was a direct consequence of Trump’s “incitement.” However, University of Wisconsin law professor Ann Althouse took the time to read the entire transcript of Trump’s remarks at Wednesday’s “Save America March,” and found nothing that could fairly be considered as an incitement to violence. What the president actually said, instead, was that “everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard” – which is, in fact, what most of them did.
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