Why did Twitter close Trump’s account and not Echenique’s?

Donald Trump and Pablo Echenique may be in the antipodes if we talk about their ideology, but they are much closer if we talk about the geography of provocation, of populism. From Twitter. Trump left the White House shortly after the bird’s social network closed his profile. Echenique continues today with the account opened for something similar to what in his day caused the closure of the account of the president of the rubber bangs.

Echenique dedicated words of encouragement to the protesters who met yesterday in Madrid and Barcelona to protest the incarceration of rapper Pablo Hasel. Incidentally, they also broke part of the street furniture – which you and I will pay for – and incidentally also stoned the police.

The comparison of Echenique’s comment with the last tweet of Donald Trump’s story on Twitter seems necessary. They are similar but with different consequences. Let’s see.

Calm the protesters

In the opening moments of the assault on the Capitol, Donald Trump asked on Twitter to calm the protesters, but in no case did he urge them to leave the premises. After a few hours and other tweets through, Twitter decided to temporarily suspend the account of the president of the United States. If you did not delete a series of comments that the social network considered violated its usage policies, your profile would be deleted forever. Trump backtracked and got his account back 12 hours later.

Almost immediately afterwards, he returned to the fray and tweeted the following: “The 75 million great American patriots who voted for me, America first, to make America great again, will have a giant voice in the future.” Dorsey considered that this tweet was being interpreted as a clear sign that Trump “does not facilitate an orderly transition.” He decided to permanently knock down his profile, alluding to “risk of further incitement to violence.”

The nonsense and provocations, hateful tweets and disrespect of Donald Trump on the social network were much worse in the past, but the microblogging network decided to definitely brush his profile for this comment, as undefined as open to interpretation. So, if you want it, little ‘Trumpian’.

Echenique and Trump have experienced similar situations and acted with the same script. Two politicians with a highly provocative profile on social networks. Groups of protesters organized to raid public facilities. Use of violence by those protesters to achieve their goal. Comments of support to his parishioners in social networks, but different consequences.

Donald Trump’s account was withdrawn forever while Pablo Echenique’s account continues with its normal activity. You have not even received any notice from Twitter, much less a temporary block to warn you that your comments violate the policies of use. Why? What would Mourinho say.

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