14 DAY TRIAL // Donald Trump could soon be forced to start posting his nonsense on Weibo if a GoFundMe campaign turns successful and helps an organization called GlobalZero raise $1 billion.
What the org wants to do is buy a hefty Twitter share and then use the stakeholder power to ban Donald Trump, thus making sure that the service no longer ignores “growing calls to enforce their own community standards and delete Trump’s account.”
The more unexpected piece of information is that the campaign was started by a former CIA agent called Valerie Wilson, who backs the campaign and wants Donald Trump out from Twitter.
At the time of posting this article, the campaign has already raised $58,000, so there’s still a long way to go to reach the $1 billion threshold, if this ever happens.
Twitter is Donald Trump’s “biggest megaphone”
GlobalZero explains that by using Twitter, Donald Trump “damage the country and put people in harm’s way,” pointing to the President’s most recent tweets aimed at North Korea as the living proof. Trump threatened North Korea with a nuclear war, warning that “military solutions are no fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely.”
The campaign points out that Twitter doesn’t take its guidelines seriously in the case of Donald Trump and refuses to ban the President, so buying a stake in the company and then having the power to vote for decisions like this is the only way to prevent disasters like a nuclear war from happening.
“Trump has fully weaponized Twitter: it’s not something that just happens ‘online.’ Time and again his use of this huge global platform has major consequences in the real world. With a single tweet, he can damage international relationships and alliances, spread fake news like a virus, embolden white supremacists to march in the streets, or send stock markets crashing or soaring,” it reads.
We’ll keep an eye on this campaign to track how much money it raises, and we’ll provide more updates in the future to let you know should it have any chance of succeeding.