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So You’ve Been Banned on Twitter

ICYMI

Slate Podcasts

Entertainment News, News, Tech News, Society & Culture

3.8678 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Rachelle and Madison discuss Facebook upholding their ban of Donald Trump from their platform—sort of. Then they interview someone about their own experience getting banned: legal journalist Rachel Stone, who was banned from Twitter after she jokingly threatened the man who cautions you to take a break from scrolling through TikTok. Finally, the debut of our new segment Galaxy Brain, where we explore some of the wildest theories on the internet, starting with a listener email about the word cheugy. Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:22.0

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0:27.9

slash UK slash AI for people. I've not been silenced, like capital S, but like it's at Twitter's

0:36.3

discretion whether or not I'm allowed like like, to, like, play by their rules.

0:43.2

Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher.

0:45.8

And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I see why am I.

0:49.8

In case you missed it.

0:51.5

Slate's podcast about internet culture.

0:57.0

So, uh, Donald Trump. Still, still banned from Facebook. I know.

0:58.0

Sorry, what a horrible way to start up.

1:00.0

All of our listeners just turned off their, turned off the episode.

1:03.0

Honestly, I just tuned out of my own brain.

1:06.0

It is big news in the internet world.

1:10.0

Facebook has upheld a decision to keep Trump banned from the platform.

1:15.5

The first good thing Facebook has perhaps done ever in their entire life.

1:19.7

What's wild is that it's not even technically their final decision.

1:23.5

Trump might be back on Facebook in six months.

1:34.3

Trump's ban from mainstream social platforms like Facebook, and he's also banned from Twitter.

1:41.1

Frankly, I feel like this poses a lot more questions than it provides answers, mostly about who does and does not get punished by platforms for behavior that goes against terms of service,

1:46.3

which terms of service are just the long, fine print that most of us avoid reading when we join an app or a platform.

1:51.7

And you just like scroll to the end and go, yes, I agree.

1:53.8

You want my firstborn child and like seven locks of my hair?

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