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Kamala Harris really wants Trump kicked off Twitter

Nobody understands why.

 

Claire Goforth

Tech

Posted on Oct 15, 2019   Updated on May 20, 2021, 1:21 am CDT

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif) used some of her time on the debate stage tonight to repeat her calls for Twitter to suspend President Donald Trump’s account. Surprisingly, she also went after Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) for not having her back on the issue.

During a debate over whether tech companies should be broken up, as Warren has urged, Harris led by saying that it is a “grave injustice” that tech companies don’t equally apply the rules to powerful and powerless people. Then her argument went to Trump.

“Senator Warren, I just want to say I was just surprised to hear that you did not agree with me on this subject of what should be the rules of corporate responsibility for these big tech companies when I called on Twitter to suspend Donald Trump’s account,” Harris said.

“Here we have Donald Trump, who has 65 million Twitter followers and is using that platform as the President of the United States to openly intimidate witnesses, to threaten witnesses, to obstruct justice, and he and his account should be taken down.”

Harris added that the El Paso shooter had taken cues from Trump’s Twitter account and again called on Twitter to “shut down” his account.

“It is a matter of safety and corporate accountability,” she said.

Seeming a bit taken aback, Warren deflected with an applause line.

“I don’t just wanna push Donald Trump off Twitter, I want to push him out of the White House,” she said.

Some understood where Harris was coming from, but most observers were confused by Harris’s bizarre, if impassioned, attack on Warren.

Kamala Harris is attacking Elizabeth Warren about not shutting down Trump‘s Twitter account and Elizabeth Warren is like: But why are you taking money from big tech and big pharma, though?” tweeted The Root writer Michael Harriot.

Kamala Harris going after Elizabeth Warren on banning Trump from Twitter is one of the more pathetic stunts I’ve seen in a debate,” quipped Crooked Media founder Jon Lovett.

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Like Harris, many have pressured Twitter to deplatform Trump.

Earlier today, the New York Times reported that the company said it would continue to be “lenient” with world leaders who violate its policies.

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*First Published: Oct 15, 2019, 10:22 pm CDT