OMG ROFL
Earlier today @realdonaldtrump’s account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee. The account was down for 11 minutes, and has since been restored. We are continuing to investigate and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again.
— Twitter Government (@TwitterGov) November 3, 2017
I mean, what can you even say about the sheer vastness of blatant incompetence shown by the Twitter organization here? It’s pretty funny, at least until you really think about the consequences.
Clearly, any disgruntled Twitter employee can go in and deactivate anyone’s account at will. We all knew they could probably do that (along with Facebook and Google), but who cares if they deactivate somebody’s ex-girlfriend’s account out of spite. Now it’s right there in black and white for everyone to see that *they deactivated the account of the President of the United States.* Not only can Twitter not prevent foreign governments from spreading propaganda to us, they can’t even stop *their own employees* from spraying political propaganda all over everyone’s timelines.
If we thought the chances of government regulation of social media were high before (and we did, because it’s the only thing Republicans and Democrats seem to agree on–see the Halloween testimony), they have just gone up a thousand-fold.
P. S. I don’t *like* that it’s come to this, but big social media sites really need government regulation right now. They are completely out of control.
P. P. S. Don’t worry, there will always be smaller, more secure social media clones rampant on the web so you can still conduct your libertarian super secret chit-chats out of sight from the prying eyes of the government if you want. They just won’t be commercially successful.
