Critics Call for Twitter to Suspend Trump Following Storming of Capitol Building (Updated)

Twitter has continually ignored calls to restrict President Trump from tweeting

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After a Trump rally in Washington, D.C., escalated into a mob that breached the U.S. Capitol building and took control of congressional offices, activists and online information experts like Roxane Gay, Kara Swisher, and Danielle Citron called for Twitter to suspend President Trump’s account.

A suspension of the president’s Twitter account, they say, would prevent more violence from being incited. Even Alex Stamos, a former Facebook chief security officer, called for Facebook and Twitter to suspend the president’s accounts.

Hours after these initial calls for action, Twitter temporarily locked the president’s account, deleted three tweets pushing an election conspiracy theory, and threatened Trump with permanent suspension.