What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

Wonder no more

Climate is long term not day to day.

Your Wikipedia link has typically used to describe left wing complaints but not exclusively. Aside from that it fits. Trump and the likes of Orban, Putin etc. want to stop certain groups of society from being insulted (namely themselves and anyone in their good favour).

In any case the effect is the same if you want to label it political correctness or another word. They want some people protected from insults and for some things to not be said. The main change is if you are trying to protect the disadvantaged or the privileged with it really.

Are committee members the only people in the room? No staff members?

That doesn't answer the question I asked

Since Truth Social was mentioned here the other day, the BBC are now also reporting it as a failure:

Nearly 1.5 million on the wait list. I'm thinking that maybe no-one is actually processing new sign-ups. One curious bit of text pops up in the article that gave me pause: "But quite why the app is having so many problems has baffled experts."

"Baffled experts?" Come on, even an IT hobbyist like myself can easily guess that Trump would cheap out on the back-end infrastructure. He probably threw the bare minimum cash at the same poor fool who made his Wordpress blog to bang together a basic server with a skinned Mastodon platform and didn't do much else. They can't add more than a couple 1000 users, otherwise the server will probably brick itself. I don't see that wait list getting any smaller any time soon.

I doubt Musk would care too much if Trump was allowed to come back or not. I'd say he's more likely trying to make sure he can reduce criticism of himself, Tesla, and just say whatever he wants. Musk is interested in his freedom of speech, not anyone else's.

What benefit would there be to Twitter to warrant allowing Trump back? User numbers and shares dropped right after his ban, but have grown since. Twitter has continued to grow without Trump, and the vast majority of his followers are still on Twitter.

Musk might argue for it, but even though he might be the largest shareholder, his shares still only amount to less than 10%.

Trump is most likely going to be allowed back on Twitter if/when he fully announces he's running in 2024, because Twitter probably won't want to deal with the argument of providing an unfair advantage to one candidate over another. So they'll allow him back under stated conditions and under the agreement that they'll ban him if he breaks any of those conditions, but that's most likely Trump's way back onto Twitter, with or without Musk.

Plus imagine the embarrassment of Trump having to be bailed out by an actual billionaire.

You won't get an answer. He'd rather try and copy my post over on the biden thread

I think some will be confused if they think Musk is on the side of autocoup wannabe depots. Refer to the work Starlink is doing to undermine Trump's BFF, Vladimir "Genius" Putin. As for thinking Musk doesn't believe in speech restriction, refer to Tesla's union-busting and the string of Musk employment lawsuits. He's just as happy to 'champion free speech' as he is to say 'but.' Trump committed a serious autocoup attempt and used Twitter's platform to largely help carry it out. 9% of the company held by a day-trader no less, buys the rest of the company into forgetting that?