The person President Trump picked as his cybersecurity adviser is making claims of a conspiracy against him and the President perpetrated by Twitter. While Rudy Giuliani correct in assuming anti-Trump bias at Twitter, he’s wrong in believing that bias was turned against him. In fact, he’s the one who made the mistake, but his understanding of how the internet works is shockingly lacking.
On Sunday, Giuliani Tweeted this:
Mueller filed an indictment just as the President left for https://t.co/8ZNrQ6X29a July he indicted the Russians who will never come here just before he left for Helsinki.Either could have been done earlier or later. Out of control!Supervision please?
— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) November 30, 2018
You’ll notice a link to G-20.in that was automatically turned into a hyperlink because Giuliani forgot to put a space at the end of the sentence. This is done whenever any letters or numbers precede a period immediately followed by a top level domain (TLD), such as [dot]com or [dot]net. In this case, it was [dot]in, the code for Indian websites.
An industrious leftist noticed it, bought the domain, and put up an anti-Trump message.
Fearing he was targeted by Twitter or someone who was given access to edit his post, Giuliani Tweeted this yesterday:
Twitter allowed someone to invade my text with a disgusting anti-President message. The same thing-period no space-occurred later and it didn’t happen. Don’t tell me they are not committed cardcarrying anti-Trumpers. Time Magazine also may fit that description. FAIRNESS PLEASE
— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) December 5, 2018
His argument that the “same thing-period no space-occurred later” references the part where he excluded the space in “Helsinki.Either” in the original Tweet. Unfortunately for Giuliani’s conspiracy theory, [dot]Either isn’t a TLD.
It’s probably best for someone a little more tech-savvy to handle Giuliani’s Twitter account for him. It may also behoove the nation if someone a lot more tech savvy could replace him as President Trump’s cybersecurity adviser.
