Ex-US President Donald Trump announces social media site

Notably, their ToS forbids you from criticizing the site.<p>&gt; 23. disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and&#x2F;or the Site.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;truthsocial.com&#x2F;terms-of-service&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;truthsocial.com&#x2F;terms-of-service&#x2F;</a>

This is amusing, given that the Soviet newspaper was Pravda, or &quot;Truth&quot;

I&#x27;d be scared to work for a company under the man&#x27;s control with all the news articles about him stiffing others on payment, but it will be interesting to see if conservative tech workers who complain about being in the minority will flock to build his effort

apparently they used open source mastodon[0].<p>the fediverse[1] is about to get &quot;interesting&quot;.<p>its like that scene from a Western movie where a bunch of black-dressed men ride towards a serene bucolic ranch and the family inside looks through the window with a sense of foreboding<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;joinmastodon.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;joinmastodon.org&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fediverse.party&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fediverse.party&#x2F;</a>

I expect it will be a gift that keeps on giving, like the Polish equivalent &quot;Albicla&quot; which was a total debacle, with rookie security mistakes where half of users were Popes ;)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.eu&#x2F;article&#x2F;albicla-poland-anti-censorship-social-media-platform-rough-start&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.politico.eu&#x2F;article&#x2F;albicla-poland-anti-censorsh...</a>

Going to be hard to run a social media site from prison. But seriously, I&#x27;m surprised it&#x27;s October and he hasn&#x27;t felt a single consequence to his many actions.<p>But back on topic. If he&#x27;s trying to say that his platform won&#x27;t cancel people, what happens when the Taliban do sign up, or it&#x27;s flooded with left leaning users?

Should have named it &#x27;Irony&#x27;&#x2F;&#x27;Ironic&#x27;&#x2F;&#x27;Ironical&#x27;.

&gt; “We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American President has been silenced.<p>Everything is framed in &#x27;us vs them&#x27; language even now I see. Not surprising considering the data they&#x27;ve gotten from doing supporter polls. Here&#x27;s an example; I wish it wasn&#x27;t real, but it is.<p>&quot;Who would you rather see fix our Nation’s shattered immigration policies?<p>Option 1: &quot;President Trump&quot;<p>Option 2: &quot;A MS-13 Loving Democrat&quot;<p>Feel free to peruse the other insightful questions here. They&#x27;d be hilarious if you remove the fact that this was part of a <i>former</i> head of state&#x27;s official campaign.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20200703042946&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.donaldjtrump.com&#x2F;landing&#x2F;2020-trump-vs-dem-poll" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20200703042946&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.donal...</a>

Dupe: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28939896" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28939896</a>

Dupe: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28939896" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=28939896</a>

&gt; HL Mencken once said that “the trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.” There’s an unfortunate corollary to this, which is that if you try to create a libertarian paradise, you will attract three deeply virtuous people with a strong committment to the principle of universal freedom, plus millions of scoundrels.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slatestarcodex.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;22&#x2F;freedom-on-the-centralized-web&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slatestarcodex.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;07&#x2F;22&#x2F;freedom-on-the-central...</a>

A little late to the game? This is like starting a newspaper.

May you live in interesting times indeed...

Isn&#x27;t this the second attempt at this sort of thing for Trump?