The Importance of Twitter's Trump Ban
Added: 16.01.2021 15:16 | 24 views | 0 comments
 After Twitter permanently suspended Donald Trump's account, earlier this month, the reactions were quick, ubiquitous, and mostly predictable. Many of the takes seemed canned, the way an obituary of a terminally ill celebrity is often pre-written. On the Trump-apologist right, the suspension was denounced as Orwellian tyranny, deep-state collusion, or worse. (Glenn Beck, during a segment on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show, compared the Trump ban and other Big Tech crackdowns to "the Germans with the Jews behind the wall. They would put them in the ghetto. Well, this is the digital ghetto.")...
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