TRAMP @tramp

2021-02-09 20:30:34 The son of former US President Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. became the first American political figure to gain a million subscribers on his Telegram channel.

https://t.me/TrumpJr Open / Comment

2021-02-05 17:49:40 Response to Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin Open / Comment

2021-01-30 09:51:33 A New York state judge has ordered a tax firm that has worked with former President Trump to turn over more documents to the New York attorney general as part of her office's investigation into the Trump Organization cnn.it/2KZpCP0 Open / Comment

2021-01-29 10:53:48 August Takala @AugustTakala

TUCKER: Today, the FBI showed up at 31-year-old Doug Mackey's (AKA Ricky Vaughn's) house, a "conservative journalist" in Florida. He's facing 10 years for disinformation "in the form of memes."

(Thoughts? Some might argue this is the kind of moron conservatives need to ditch.) Open / Comment

2021-01-29 10:52:42 August Takala @AugustTakala

TUCKER: The law Biden's prosecutors cite prohibits conspiring to "injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate" people from voting. Doug Mackey made memes. Therefore, he's a terrorist.

What does this mean for the First Amendment? You can now be arrested for saying the wrong things. Open / Comment

2021-01-27 17:24:07 Telegram, Pro-Democracy Tool, Struggles Over New Fans From Far Right
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/world/europe/telegram-app-far-right.html

The messaging app Telegram has long been an engine of resistance and an annoyance for tyrants. Authoritarian leaders in Russia and Iran have tried to ban it. When protests broke out recently in Belarus and Hong Kong, Telegram was the glue that held democracy movements together in the face of violent onslaughts by powerful security services.

These days, though, Telegram is quickly becoming an online refuge for a different kind of resistance.

Far-right conspiracy theorists, racists and violent insurrectionists have been flocking to Telegram in recent weeks after being banished from the big American social media platforms following the storming of the Capitol building in Washington by a mob supporting President Donald J. Trump, who himself was cut off from Facebook and Twitter.

Twenty-five million new users flooded Telegram in the days after Twitter and Facebook, reacting to the Jan. 6 mayhem at the Capitol, purged users they deemed responsible for having incited violence or spread disinformation. The company’s founder, Pavel Durov, described it as “the largest digital migration in human history.”

The cascade of new users presents a new complication for Mr. Durov, who has positioned himself as an unambiguous ally of the street and free speech. He has promoted Telegram, which combines the features of Facebook and Twitter with encrypted messaging and a hands-off moderating philosophy, as a refuge for the oppressed.

The app has helped fuel democracy movements in Iran and Belarus but now faces scrutiny as extremists and conspiracy theorists flock to it amid crackdowns by Facebook and Twitter on disinformation.

Shortly after Twitter blocked Mr. Trump’s account, Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations, urged the president to move over to Telegram as well.

“Seems like you don’t enjoy freedom of speech in your own country any more!” Mr. Polyanskiy wrote.

So far, Mr. Trump has refrained, though a fake account created in his name already has nearly 800,000 subscribers.

On Friday his son, Donald Trump Jr., announced that he had joined Telegram and urged supporters to follow his channel. Open / Comment

2021-01-27 09:37:13 YouTube is suspending President Donald Trump's channel for at least one week, and potentially longer, after his channel earned a strike under the platform's policies cnn.it/2XC0MaE Open / Comment

2021-01-26 11:50:29 Statement from the Office of the Former President Open / Comment

2021-01-26 11:48:07 Google Pressed in Lawsuit to Dump Telegram Just Like Parler

A former U.S. ambassador wants Google to do to Telegram what it did to Parler.

Marc Ginsberg sued the Alphabet Inc. unit Monday, asking a California court to require it to remove the Telegram Messenger app from the Google Play Store because it facilitates violence, extremism and anti-Semitism.

Telegram, especially in the wake of George Floyd’s killing and the inauguration of Joe Biden as president, has been used to threaten, encourage and coordinate racist violence, claims Ginsberg, who was Bill Clinton’s ambassador to Morocco. He pointed out that, after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, Google suspended Parler from its app store because a number of its right-wing users expressed support for the siege and further violence.

“Google has not taken any action against Telegram comparable to the action it has taken against Parler to compel Telegram to improve its content moderation policies,” Ginsberg’s suit says. He filed a similar complaint on Jan. 17 against Apple Inc., which had also pulled Parler from its app store after the riot.

‘Parler Refugees’

Amazon.com Inc. cited its own concerns about violent content on Parler in pulling the plug on the platform’s web-hosting service. The actions taken against Parler, as well the banning of former President Donald Trump and others from Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. have spurred a wide-ranging debate over the tech industry’s control and responsibilities over speech.

A channel on Telegram is dedicated to “Parler refugees.” Some Telegram users urged followers to drop plans for a second protest in Washington in support of Trump in favor of surprise attacks nationwide, according to the lawsuit.

The suit also accuses Telegram of serving as a platform for the sale of illegal and controlled substances, including LSD and cocaine.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-25/telegram-deserves-same-fate-as-parler-suit-against-google-says Open / Comment

2021-01-25 17:55:05 This message for my president Donald J Trump. I wars sportsman 16 years and I don’t know any champion who never lost. Champion it’s going to be stronger, when here lost competition . Good sportsman lost ones and never make same mistake in the future. I am… Open / Comment