Scott Adams Shadowbanned from Twitter for Supporting Trump

[robotresearcher]

He claims that the backlash against his support of Trump cost him $1M in speaker fees in the coming year. That is 20 years of the median wage for full time work in the US.

I respect Adams' creativity and he's made a significant cultural contribution, but the late-stage Adams career of self-proclaimed genius too smart to be fooled by political correctness is unpleasant. It's very easy to be a libertarian when you won everything.

[jakeogh]

Record numbers of ordinary people are voting for Trump.

http://img.ccrd.clearchannel.com/media/mlib/15172/2016/06/de...

https://i.sli.mg/erfcMO.jpg

[avmich]

This is a poster child of the case when you can completely disagree with opinion but should be really worried about the possibility of silencing it.

Wonder if Scott Adams can satisfy the search for intelligent Trump supporters - http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-quest-for-int... .

[ZeroGravitas]

The slatestarcodex blog linked to above, and it's follow up are good reads:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/09/28/ssc-endorses-clinton-jo...

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/10/01/he-kept-us-out-of-war/

Intelligent conservatives' comments on Trump fascinate me. I like reading between the lines as they realise they have to explain things very slowly for a big portion of their audience, who they thought were appreciating their intellectual arguments, but it turns out they just thought they were in the same tribe.

For more from this genre, see also Sam Harris podcasts available on Youtube, where he goes into great detail about why Trump would be a disaster.

[fred_is_fred]

Predating Trump support, Scott Adams is and was a nut-bag misogynist, so my hanky is pretty dry right now.

[NotSammyHagar]

He does come across as a bit of a nut. I really loved dilbert, sad to see him so paranoid and bitter about the world. He reminds me of Peter Thiel.

[DiabloD3]

Cite? Because I only know him from his comic that is about as funny as Garfield.

[NotSammyHagar]

Can't he just use his powers of persuasion and hypnosis to make twitter do what he wants? More seriously, I am curious what he actually did. Is he constantly an asshole or threatening people or something? Twitter is not the same thing as free speech, but I know a lot of conservatives get their panties in a bunch, being so afraid of being oppressed by the (wo)man.

The article doesn't really say what he posted.

[sunshiney]

I am a woman and independent who would not be oppressed by a woman president. I also have a master's degree. I would never vote Hillary. Never...

[EJTH]

> The article doesn't really say what he posted.

> Why did I get shadowbanned?

> Beats me.

> But it was probably because I asked people to tweet me examples of Clinton supporters being violent against peaceful Trump supporters in public. I got a lot of them. It was chilling.

It was literally the second paragraph of the article...

[shitgoose]

"The article doesn't really say what he posted."

Support for Trump. Isn't that enough?

[GFK_of_xmaspast]

Why would twitter ban Adams and not any of the thousands of other jerks on there?

[slededit]

His theory:

> All things considered, I had a great week. I didn’t realize I was having enough impact to get on the Clinton enemies list.