{"id":49299,"date":"2021-05-05T13:28:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T20:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=49299"},"modified":"2021-05-05T13:28:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T20:28:12","slug":"crybaby-trump-and-his-whining-republicans-threaten-illegal-retaliation-against-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=49299","title":{"rendered":"Crybaby Trump and His Whining Republicans Threaten Illegal Retaliation Against Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several months ago, Donald Trump was suspended by Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, among others, for disseminating lies and disinformation that had a certifiably dangerous impact on the nation. On Wednesday morning Facebook released the decision<\/a><\/strong> by its independent Oversight Board to uphold that suspension, at least for the time being.<\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/p>\n

The Board found that…<\/p>\n

“…in maintaining an unfounded narrative of electoral fraud and persistent calls to action, Mr. Trump created an environment where a serious risk of violence was possible.” […] “At the same time, the panel found the indefinite suspension inappropriate and asked Facebook over the next six months to review the decision and develop a ‘proportionate response that is consistent with the rules that are applied to other users of its platform.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The reaction to that decision by the Trump camp was as swift as it was ludicrous. Trump’s response was a post to his pitifully comical new “communications platform”<\/em><\/a><\/strong> saying that…<\/p>\n

“\u201cWhat Facebook, Twitter, and Google have done is a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our Country. Free Speech has been taken away from the President of the United States because the Radical Left Lunatics are afraid of the truth, but the truth will come out anyway, bigger and stronger than ever before. The People of our Country will not stand for it! These corrupt social media companies must pay a political price, and must never again be allowed to destroy and decimate our Electoral Process.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To give credit where credit is due, Trump knows plenty about being “a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our Country.”<\/em> However, his assertion that “free speech has been taken away”<\/em> from him proves that he doesn’t have any idea what the term means. For the record, free speech is the constitutional protection against the government (not private business) suppressing speech.<\/p>\n

What’s more, Trump apparently doesn’t think that being able to appear at will on national cable TV propaganda networks (i.e. Fox News, Newsmax, OAN, etc.) and a multitude of other right-wing media outlets (i.e. Breitbart, Daily Caller, New York Post, etc.) constitute platforms for free speech. If he’s really concerned about free speech, he might want to stand up for Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, who is presently being shut down for telling the truth about Trump and his incitement of the deadly Capitol insurrection.<\/p>\n

More troubling is Trump’s overt threat that “social media companies must pay a political price.”<\/em> That is, in itself, an attack on the free speech rights of the businesses that operate social media sites. And it is purely political retaliation for what he imagines is bias against conservatives. Never mind that the highest trafficked pages on Facebook are by right-wingers:<\/p>\n

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The top-performing link posts by U.S. Facebook pages in the last 24 hours are from:<\/p>\n

1. Ben Shapiro
2. Ben Shapiro
3. Ben Shapiro
4. Fox News
5. ForAmerica
6. Dan Bongino
7. Sean Hannity
8. Dan Bongino
9. Fox News
10. The Rachel Maddow Show<\/p>\n

— Facebook's Top 10 (@FacebooksTop10) May 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n