{"id":13130,"date":"2021-10-04T14:33:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T18:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=13130"},"modified":"2021-12-10T14:51:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T19:51:06","slug":"trump-asks-judge-to-force-twitter-to-restart-his-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/trump-asks-judge-to-force-twitter-to-restart-his-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Asks Judge to Force Twitter to Restart His Account"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a lawsuit filed against Twitter in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, former President Donald Trump asked a federal judge to restore his account, which the company deleted in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Trump&#8217;s lawyers, Twitter wields &#8220;a degree of power and control over political discourse in this country that is immeasurable, historically unprecedented, and profoundly dangerous to open democratic debate,&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notably, Twitter claimed in January, when it removed the account, that Trump had violated its rules by &#8220;glorifying violence,&#8221; and as the company made clear, Trump&#8217;s tweets are likely to encourage people to repeat January&#8217;s protests in the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump further argued in the lawsuit that the company censored him during his term, calling some of his tweets &#8220;misleading information&#8221; but allowing the Taliban to regularly tweet about their military victories in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/trump-asks-florida-judge-force-twitter-restart-his-account-bloomberg-news-2021-10-02\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a lawsuit filed against Twitter in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, former President Donald Trump asked a federal judge to restore his account, which the company deleted in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-13130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13161,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13130\/revisions\/13161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}