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May 5, 2021

Facebook oversight board upholds Trump account's suspension

Source: Reuters

Facebook Inc (FB.O)'s oversight board on Wednesday upheld the company's suspension of former U.S. President Donald Trump in a much-awaited verdict that may signal how the company will treat rule-breaking world leaders in the future.

Facebook indefinitely blocked Trump's access to his Facebook and Instagram accounts over concerns of further violent unrest following the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of the former president.

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The binding verdict marks a major decision for the board, which rules on a small slice of challenging content decisions and which Facebook created as an independent body as a response to criticism over how it handles problematic material. Facebook has also asked the board to provide recommendations on how it should handle political leaders' accounts.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/facebook-oversight-board-rule-trumps-return-facebook-2021-05-05/



https://oversightboard.com/news/
https://oversightboard.com/decision/FB-691QAMHJ/
May 4, 2021

Is The Biden Admin Going Too Far To The Left? HELL NO

How can we not want ALL of this and more - ALL OF US?


instead we have this:


and this:


& well we are at it - this:

May 4, 2021

Dan Rather: Idea you can't add states to Union -pretty much undercut by a flag w- more than 13 stars

The idea that you can’t add states to the Union is pretty much undercut by a flag with more than 13 stars.

https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1389051000539869186?s=20
May 3, 2021

The Guardian: 'Decades ahead of his time': history catches up with visionary Jimmy Carter

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“Here’s what people get wrong about Carter,” Will Pattiz, one of the film’s directors tells me. “He was not in over his head or ineffective, weak or indecisive – he was a visionary leader, decades ahead of his time trying to pull the country toward renewable energy, climate solutions, social justice for women and minorities, equitable treatment for all nations of the world. He faced nearly impossible economic problems – and at the end of the day came so very close to changing the trajectory of this nation.”


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.....Carter was right on asking us to drive less, to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, to focus on conservation and renewable energy. Not only was Carter’s vision a path not taken, it was a path mocked. Reagan removed the solar panels from the White House, politicized the environmental movement and painted it as a fringe endeavor.

“Carter was our only president who had a visceral environmental and ecological attachment. That was part of his being,” Speth says. “We had an opportunity in 1980 – but we’ve lost 40 years in the pursuit of a climate-safe path. We can no longer avoid serious and destructive changes, period. That didn’t have to happen.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/03/jimmy-carter-climate-change-carterland-film-biography

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