'Man has a point': FCC chairman Ajit Pai asks 'serious question for Twitter' about these tweets from Iran's leader

As we told you earlier, tweets from President Trump’s Twitter account (as well as the White House’s account) have prompted the social media company to slap a warning label (they call it a “public interest notice”) on them:

UPDATE: Twitter is now hiding the 'when the looting starts, the shooting starts' tweet from @WhiteHouse https://t.co/PDjrxbpF5F

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 29, 2020

Twitter is really poking the bear now. https://t.co/oaYNfabV0N

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) May 29, 2020

FCC chairman Ajit Pai asked a question that helps point out the corner Twitter has painted itself into:

Serious question for @Twitter: Do these tweets from Supreme Leader of Iran @khamenei_ir violate "Twitter Rules about glorifying violence"? pic.twitter.com/oEkCC8UzFV

— Ajit Pai (@AjitPaiFCC) May 29, 2020

Will Twitter comment? Time will tell.

Man has a point… https://t.co/tlWfVT3uo2

— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) May 29, 2020

Yep.

It'll be kind of funny if Twitter are cornered into banning Khamenei because of bad Tweets by Trump.

— neontaster (@neontaster) May 29, 2020

This was inevitably where this would go. Dipping its toe into fact checking was always a selective and subjective exercise that could never be uniformly applied. Forcing this platform to police all its content will be the end of it. https://t.co/5U33BFxN5P

— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) May 29, 2020

Unreal.