2. The social media shut out of Trump in an emergency, after he fanned violence against Congress, is eminently defensible but it also highlights the dangerously oversized power these private organizations have in political life.
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3. The capriciousness of the social media giants is striking. Trump has been doing incendiary & often racist speech long before he became president. And he wasn't banned for political and economic reasons. Now he's on the way out, they ban him.
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4. More thoughts here on why the banning of Trump should open up a larger debate about bringing social media giants under the accountability of democracy.https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-censorship-twitter-facebook/ …
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The United States of America is in the grip of China envy
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I don't really understand how on the one hand you realize and question the power of social media giants in a political system and at the same time expect from them to ban the most powerful politician on this planet in order to silence him
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I mean obviously is this man unbearable from a democratic, "common sense" point of view but he still was voted by 70+ million americans and no company should have the right to prevent him from communicating with his voters
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