Twitter Doesn't Owe You Anything

By now I'm sure that everyone has heard that Twitter, along with most other social media sites, has permanently blocked Trump (and approximately 70,000 others). My question is why has this taken them so long?

I don't use Twitter all that often, but one the tweets I sent in the past year, which may have been one of less than 10 I sent, was to the CEO of Twitter after what was then the latest incendiary tweet that you don't teach a 2-year-old a lesson without having some consequences. Merely saying "don't do that" is not very effective. And I have a two-year-old so I am very aware of the behavior and the tantrums (although hers are a lot cuter than a 74-year-olds).

But, now that they have done it, the right-wing, or the sedition-caucus, is freaking out because their "first-amendment rights" are being infringed upon. First, that should indicate that they know nothing about the constitution, because what the first amendment says is that "Congress shall make no law..." not Twitter. Second, private companies have much more leeway for numerous reasons, but it's about enforcing the rules equally.

Twitter has standards of conduct which can get people banned, and they have been doing it all along to radical elements, but they have finally decided to do it to Trump and his followers. Again, my question is what took them so long?

No one has a right to a Twitter account or Facebook or anything else, especially if they choose to advocate the violent overthrown of the government, or violence towards others. It's like driving. It's a priveledge that can be taken away. 

Now we can argue about the power that Twitter or Facebook or Google or Amazon, among others have, but that's a different conversation and it has NOTHING to do with banning people for inciting violence or hate. 

The biggest problem now for the sedition-causcus is that they are being forced to live by the rules, often the same rules they wanted applied to everyone but them. And it is violating the "rights" they think they have as whites that they believe they are entitled to, that no one else is, which is really at the heart of much of what has been taking place.

There is still a reconing that will come to the social media companies because they have some culpability in the rhetoric that's been going around, especially in the hate and Big Lies, but at least they have started to make a step in the right direction. Now, again, they just have to answer why it took them so long.