Banning Donald Trump from Twitter, a proposal first advanced by two prominent female Silicon Valley executives, was an idea whose time had not yet come on Inauguration Day, when they addressed the issue in an open letter to Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder and CEO. But as the president’s tweets have grown increasingly belligerent and erratic, and with social networking companies facing congressional scrutiny over their use by foreign governments to influence elections, the once-outlandish notion seems to be gaining traction.
“Dear
@Jack: It’s Time To Suspend Donald Trump From Twitter,” Ellen Pao,
co-founder and CEO of Project Include, and Laura Gomez, founder and CEO
of Atipica, a workplace diversity solutions company, wrote on Inauguration Day.
The conversation burst back into view this week, thanks to a tweet from Pao.
“@realdonaldtrump is bringing out the worst of Twitter — the company,
the platform, and its users. He’s using his manipulation skills and your
platform to bully others, and to incite supporters to harass people —
both on Twitter and in real life,” she and Gomez, who spent three years
working at Twitter, had written. “With these abusive messages, he
incited others to attack and unleashed a stream of hate, directly
violating The Twitter Rules.
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