Thread by @DavidHamer_1951

Long 🧵 on threats posted on Twitter with impunity against the @CanadianPM.
After watching the Jan. 6 proceedings yesterday regarding Trump’s Twitter incitements to violence, one reflected on analogous incitements in 🇨🇦Canada by like-minded people…

.@globeandmail @TorontoStar @CBCNews @ConsumerSOS @globalnewsto @atRachelGilmore #cdnmedia

We’ve all seen the vomitorium on here involving mindless Trudeau hatred spewed forth by individuals that can’t manage in most cases to articulate the reasons for their upset with him.
Sometimes their rants turn to threats, express or implied, against his life.
…

.@Twitter appears to have decided to do nothing about this, for reasons best known to itself (one knows, after making several random reports to no effect).
So, one decided to collect some examples systematically, and report them all. One simply searched “Trudeau+bullet”👇🏻

Here’s someone evidently named Hughes talking about how it costs just 10 cents ‘for one Bullet with Trudeau name on it.’
Reported.

Now comes one Andrew Teece, commenting on a photo of Trudeau with Boris Johnson: “One bullet in a gun. Which one? I’d have to go for Trudeau”
Reported.

Next is an 🇺🇸American contributor, Charles Foster Malloy, saying “Put a bullet in Trudeau’s brain.”
He appears to have been temporarily suspended some time ago, but now he’s back. 👇🏻

And then there’s one Rick Lloyd, responding to a gun control tweet by the Prime Minister, saying “what a waste of a bullet, should of [sic] been Trudeau.”
Reported.

Similarly, ‘ronthedon’: “It only takes one bullet, Trudeau.”
Reported.

Further, we get the latinist, Utinciptit Fidelis, suggesting that just as Hitler should have been shot back in the 1930’s, “It’s Trudeau’s time for a bullet, by those lights.”
Reported.

And then we have Chris Dubroy telling us he’s buying a gun ‘to hunt’ and “I have this special bullet just for u Trudeau.”
Reported.

And finally, Colin, who rages over the futility of thinking heckling and shouting abuse at Trudeau will work, saying “No, but a bullet will! Just a thought!”
Reported.

Gave up the search at this point - it was endless.
So far as one knows, before one reported these folks yesterday, @Twitter and @TwitterSafety had done nothing about any of them, apart from the one temporary suspension mentioned above.
Stay tuned to hear if they do anything now.

Meanwhile, @marcomendicino, @DavidLametti, @rcmpgrcpolice and @CSIS, please take note of all.
This situation calls for individual interventions and regulatory action.
#cdnpoli

*Mistagged @csiscanada.

So, @Twitter starts to respond just now.
Mr. Hughes, who tweeted👆🏻about a bullet with Trudeau’s name on it:
@marcomendicino @DavidLametti @rcmpgrcpolice @csiscanada #cdnpoli

And Colin, who said👆🏻if heckling and abuse won’t work against Trudeau, “a bullet will!”:
@marcomendicino @DavidLametti @rcmpgrcpolice @csiscanada #cdnpoli

🤷🏼🙄😳🤔😕🥺😖🤷🏼

And now comes repeat offender Hughie, who cleverly doesn’t use the word ‘bullet’ in threatening PM Trudeau, just synonyms, and @Twitter says that’s all just fine:

And here comes @Twitter again: neither ‘ronthedon’, who tweeted “It only takes one bullet, Trudeau” nor ‘utinceptitfidelis’, who said “it’s Trudeau’s time for a bullet”, did anything to violate @Twitter’s principles.
😳😳
@marcomendicino @DavidLametti @rcmpgrcpolice @csiscanada

And yet another - Andrew Teece, who said that as between Boris Johnson and Justin Trudeau: “One bullet in a gun. Which one? I’d have to go for Trudeau”, is just fine with them.
🤷🏼😖🤷🏼
@marcomendicino @DavidLametti @rcmpgrcpolice @csiscanada

So @Twitter looks at Huey again (who wants Trudeau to have a ‘high velocity copper unit installed in his head’ or ‘catch a copper tipped projectile’) and maintains that that’s perfectly OK.
No consistency at all.
🤷🏼😳🤷🏼
@marcomendicino @DavidLametti @rcmpgrcpolice @csiscanada