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Trump's Twitter Ban May Be Justified, but That Doesn't Mean Tech Giants' Power Isn't Scary
Macleod, Alan http://fair.org/home/trumps-twitter-ban-may-be-justified-but-that-doesnt-mean-tech-giants-power-isnt-scary/
Publisher: FAIR
Date Written: 15/01/2021
Year Published: 2021
Resource Type: Article
On the implications of mixed media response to social media companies taking measures against Trump, after the storming of the US Capitol.
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The media reaction to the social media ban was varied. Writing in tech publication ZDNet (1/7/21), Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols supported the decision. "The right to free speech doesn't give you the right to the right to shout fraud in a fractured country," he said. "Twitter should have suspended Trump's account years ago," wrote Sarah Manavis in the New Statesman (1/7/21):
"For years the president has been allowed to tweet anything he wants, with deadly consequences.... The case for kicking one of its highest-profile users off the platform is self-evident."
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