Vanity Fair magazine is questioning whether Donald Trump should be thrown off Twitter now that the social networking service has launched efforts to stop tweets which promote hate speech and harassment.
"According to The New York Times, Trump has used Twitter to insult or harass about 300 people, places, and things since declaring his candidacy in June 2015, many of them individual journalists, celebrities, and politicians," Vanity Fair reporter Maya Kosoff writes.
"Nor has he strongly condemned the many people spreading hate in his name, on Twitter and elsewhere. All of which begs the question: Could Trump be suspended from Twitter?"
Kosoff says despite his vow to be "very restrained" on Twitter when he assumes office, Trump "continues to shout each day from his digital soapbox, unleashing a wave of xenophobic and anti-Semitic replies with each tweet."
"The past week has seen him use his account to berate all manner of political enemies, from the cast of Hamilton ("highly overrated," "terrible") to Alec Baldwin ("stinks"), not to mention a perennial favorite, the "failing" and "nasty" New York Times," she writes.
"The bar to ban Trump is, of course, absurdly high, now that he is about to become the nation’s next president, even if there were a case for his suspension. Still, it wouldn’t hurt Trump to reconsider the way he uses his digital megaphone."
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