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It’s not an equal comparison though. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram have a collective monopoly over modern electronic free speech and getting your message out. The vast majority of The United States uses one of these platforms. It would be like banning someone from the newspapers a decade ago. They also didn’t apply their logic to ban him equally, it was politically motivated, and the reasoning to ban him was pretty sketchy.
If certain companies have become too monopolistic they can be split up. We do have laws for that but Congress may need to update them. I’d rather do that then have the gov start regulating the content.
Could be a landmark case. It's not really about Trump himself, others have been banned. Merkel also expressed concern over twitter censorship. The Supreme Court needs to make a ruling on this. We have before us a new phenomenon of the social media becoming a public utility. How much personal power should Jack Dorsey have?
Another important issue here is the FCC Fairness Doctrine which was revoked and we've seen the degeneration of news reporting that ensued. Legislators need to take another look at this. People should approach this in the interest of truth and fairness, not partisanship. Also the lack of trust in the media has led to problems disseminating information in an emergency (eg pandemic).
They also didn’t apply their logic to ban him equally, it was politically motivated, and the reasoning to ban him was pretty sketchy.
"I don't always get banned from Twitter and Facebook but when I do it's a pretty good indication I was right and they couldn't handle it." ~ Donald J. Trump
As usual, Trump is actually doing something to defend our freedoms.
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the first amendment argument has already been tried and failed multiple times challenging social media bans/suspensions. there's nothing currently put forth by trump to make one think the results will be any different
IMO this is just trump trying to stay in the spotlight, play to his core supporters and/or use as a contribution opportunity.
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