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A historic event for whom? The United States right? Social Media operates in 100+ countries. What happened in USA is historic for you maybe. Not for us. USA is

A historic event for whom? The United States right? Social Media operates in 100+ countries. What happened in USA is historic for you maybe. Not for us. USA is not the World. Regimes fall every now and then. Coup attempts happen all the time. I have never seen media or social media ban any Government account over it. I guess Social Media has a different conscience for when regime change/coup-d'etat happens in say Iraq vs when it happens in USA. What this has done is set a very bad precedent. The Big Tech is acting like Supranational Powers overriding what Elected Governments can and cannot do. Remember that the transfer of power hasn't completed yet. Trump is still the elected President of USA until 20th of January. If Big Tech can do this to a sitting elected President, it can do it to anyone else. No Government in the World is safe from Big Tech censorship.

getlawgdon 6y ago
stop. so naive. trump has all kinds of media to use. in this case he was an irresponsible user and he was cut off, as happens all day long. just stop with the bloviation.
- shripadk 6y ago
  > stop. so naive. trump has all kinds of media to use. in this case he was an irresponsible user and he was cut off, as happens all day long. just stop with the bloviation. I can't argue with dumbness. Big Tech literally has unlimited powers. What kind of media does Trump have? Nothing. You haven't thought it through. Every platform will keep banning Trump because of popular opinion. This is a very fucked up precedent. Today it is Trump, tomorrow it can be Biden. It can be Clinton. It can be any President/Prime Minister in the World. It can be any Government. It can be any Dictator. Unlimited power doesn't discriminate. It is not bloviation but just your inability to think it through as you want your short term issue to be resolved. This is how we enabled surveillance and become accustomed to it. We will become accustomed to censorship as well. Like a frog in slow boiling water.

getlawgdon 6y ago

stop. so naive. trump has all kinds of media to use. in this case he was an irresponsible user and he was cut off, as happens all day long. just stop with the bloviation.

shripadk 6y ago
> stop. so naive. trump has all kinds of media to use. in this case he was an irresponsible user and he was cut off, as happens all day long. just stop with the bloviation. I can't argue with dumbness. Big Tech literally has unlimited powers. What kind of media does Trump have? Nothing. You haven't thought it through. Every platform will keep banning Trump because of popular opinion. This is a very fucked up precedent. Today it is Trump, tomorrow it can be Biden. It can be Clinton. It can be any President/Prime Minister in the World. It can be any Government. It can be any Dictator. Unlimited power doesn't discriminate. It is not bloviation but just your inability to think it through as you want your short term issue to be resolved. This is how we enabled surveillance and become accustomed to it. We will become accustomed to censorship as well. Like a frog in slow boiling water.