Given Facebook's creepy quasi-judicial sentence that Trump is banned for two years conditioned on being well-behaved, it's worth recalling the warnings of world leaders of the dangers of tech monopolies having this power.
First: Mexico's President AMLO:
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And here were the warnings from Merkel, Macron and EU officials -- all of whom, like AMLO, condemned the banning of Trump from social media -- that democracy is imperiled if tech monopolies decide who can and can't be heard:
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The entire democratic world seems to have no trouble seeing how menacing it is for democracy to have our political discourse policed by Silicon Valley monopolists, while pressured by political parties.
Only US liberals & their journalists can't see it. They're pro-censorship.
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How do we solve this? I don’t think a Facebook account is necessarily a right, but I’m also pretty disturbed by Tech’s ability to censor and control the narrative.
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dude, this one was appropriate and necessary. come on man? we would ban hitler.
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