Trump tweets support for far-right figures banned by Facebook

[BeckyDem]

( No surprise, he will attempt to be promoting free speech instead of focusing that these individuals violated FB rules, which is a private company. If FB had done this from the get go, we would not be seeing this mess in the first place. )


President railed against social media companies on Saturday and said he would ‘monitor the censorship’ of US citizens

Donald Trump criticized social media companies after Facebook banned a number of far-right figures, declaring that he was “monitoring and watching, closely!!”

The president, who tweeted and retweeted complaints, including complaints from rightwing figures themselves, on Friday and Saturday, said he would “monitor the censorship of AMERICAN CITIZENS on social media platforms”.


On Saturday, Trump tweeted harsh criticism of mainstream news organizations such as the Washington Post and New York Times, while lashing out against social media platforms for banning the editors of a prominent American conspiracy theory website, Infowars.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/04/trump-facebook-far-right-bans-support-twitter?CMP=share_btn_tw

[bearsfootball516]

1. Monitoring and watching closely? Private companies can do whatever they like.

It’s that simple. They can allow or ban whoever they want.

[BeckyDem]

3. Yep and they allowed garbage they should have thrown out years ago.

Trump is trying to capitalize on that angle with his base. They're the victim.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. Just when you peg him as a piece of shit, he gets shittier...

...although I shouldn't malign shit in this way.

[BeckyDem]

4. He is consistent that way.

[Eyeball_Kid]

5. Both Facebook and Twitter are frightened of Trumpy.

He routinely violates their Terms of Service agreements, but his power is so pervasive that he is showing that he is ABOVE their rules, just as he is showing that he is ABOVE the Law. His violations of both Facebook and Twitter's TOS are also due to the profit motive. He commands a huge following of "cult of personality" people. Both Zuckerberg and Dorsey shit in their pants when thinking about revenue losses and political haranguing from Trumpy were they to impose their rules on him.

[BeckyDem]

6. I don't disagree, but they have been awful on all slimeballs for a long time.

[uponit7771]

7. Punditry still believes this is Red Don "pandering" vs this is who he really is; A White Supremacist

[BeckyDem]

8. I know! It kills me they still sell it that way. grrrr

Who was he pandering to in 1989 when he spent 85,000 advertising to get the death penalty back in NY for the Central Park rape? He wasn't running for anything. His true colors were all there, but he was rich, a celebrity the media enjoyed.

He was always a racist creep, and I will still never forget CNN holding a live camera on an empty podium waiting for that asshole to show up at the 2016 rally for ratings. What will the freak say today!! They make me sick.

[BeckyDem]

9. The pundits should read what is obvious to this kid.

Nathan Kohrman graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 2011.

Wilson aspires to equality and inclusion — antithetical to our 28th president’s white supremacy. When Woodrow Wilson became president in 1913, his administration resegregated the federal bureaucracy. After 50 years of integration, black clerks could no longer use the same desks, lunchrooms or bathrooms as their white colleagues — as wearily shocking then as seeing a “Whites Only” sign would be today. Wilson also oversaw the mass firing of black civil servants and required photographs attached to applications to federal posts, which enabled hiring discrimination. These policies devastated the District’s black professional class, but Wilson argued they would “remove many of the difficulties” to black advancement. He told black leaders to respond with the “slow pressure of argument” instead of political action. One Cabinet member said Wilson wanted segregation “with the least friction possible.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/local-opinions/as-woodrow-wilson-high-school-grapples-with-its-name-the-school-is-getting-whiter/2019/05/02/db63fb68-651b-11e9-82ba-fcfeff232e8f_story.html?utm_term=.680c883e2457

[uponit7771]

11. +1

[trev]

10. Hm. Is he also "monitoring"

the denial of human rights by religious groups, such as their refusal to treat LGBT people or members of non-Christian religions?

Somehow, I doubt it.