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Trump's FCC chairman does not object to Facebook, Twitter blocking president
Reuters ^ | 07 Jan 2021 | David Shepardson

Posted on 01/08/2021 12:47:22 AM PST by blueplum

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s top communications regulator said on Thursday he did not object to decisions by Facebook and Twitter to block the president from their social media platforms.

“Given the circumstances that we saw yesterday... I’m not going to second-guess those decisions,” Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai told C-SPAN on Thursday, according to a recording of the interview seen by Reuters.

Asked if Trump bore responsibility for the violent actions Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters, Pai said “it was a terrible mistake to suggest that the results of the election, and particularly the process that culminated yesterday in the Senate and the House, could in any way be changed. That was a terrible mistake and one that I do not believe should have been indulged.”

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: censorship; facebook; fcc; internet; marxism; msm; paneer; potus; section230; streetshitter; technotyranny; trump; twitter
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hindsight philosophers

and one who's had since before Oct to change rules, but claims there's not enough time left to do it now

adding himself to the list of those individuals who hid or delayed information because felt they knew so much better than the President of the United States

1 posted on 01/08/2021 12:47:22 AM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Business Insider has a rundown of the media that have blacklisted Trump because ‘yesterday’ is all the excuse they need

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-big-tech-companies-are-handling-trump-after-riots-2021-1


2 posted on 01/08/2021 12:49:02 AM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: blueplum

What nonsense.

For months leftists did everything in the world illegal, yet NOBODY said a single word. Countless leftists were simply RELEASED.

A bunch of people who support Trump hold a big peaceful protest, in which ONE OF OURS was shot dead by “someone” and suddenly, it is TRUMPS fault?

What crap.

Sorry for the language.

Mod, feel free to delete, but I hope not.


3 posted on 01/08/2021 12:55:29 AM PST by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam)
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To: blueplum

>> that have blacklisted Trump

Yet we can financially destroy corporations overnight... but nevertheless do jack.

As we sink into the abyss of failure, I plan to beat the living shit out of the complacent asshole drowning alongside me.


4 posted on 01/08/2021 1:00:26 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: blueplum

Oh so everybody agrees to shun.

Terrorism is real.


5 posted on 01/08/2021 1:00:59 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: blueplum

There is the issue that these are private companies and they are hence are allowed a wide berth to choose their own rules. Do we really want BIG GOVERNMENT control over private companies. Don’t get me wrong, I HATE Facebook and tweeter but do we want to set the precident that a Biden admin can fine regulate FR or Palor?


6 posted on 01/08/2021 1:01:11 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: cba123

Not only illegal but incited terrorists foreign and domestic with not a peep.


7 posted on 01/08/2021 1:01:38 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: blueplum

do we have no rule of law anymore?....every law is enforced or not at the whims of humans in charge....ridiculous....


8 posted on 01/08/2021 1:06:47 AM PST by cherry (TRUMP WON!)
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To: blueplum

Trump was the boy with the finger in the dike. His finger has been pulled away and now the dike is about to collapse. I can’t even begin to imagine what America will look like a year from now.


9 posted on 01/08/2021 1:07:48 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: cherry

Whatever the Derp State says it is. Satan is running our nation now.


10 posted on 01/08/2021 1:08:27 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

“Après moi, le déluge.”


11 posted on 01/08/2021 1:09:32 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: BiglyCommentary

Guess that why you will never win, you dont want to fight fire with fire, it is what it is.


12 posted on 01/08/2021 1:11:57 AM PST by the_individual2014
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To: blueplum

Every backstabbing Swampman who Trump elevated to a high position can’t wait to denounce him and ingratiate themselves with the successor regime.

Trump pardoned Charles Kushner 2 weeks ago, and took some heat for doing it.

Now Charles Kushner is leaking to many newspapers that he is distanced from Trump has has no control over him.


13 posted on 01/08/2021 1:13:52 AM PST by Reverend Wright (Biden is like Robert Mueller: a senile frontman for radical left interests)
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To: the_individual2014

Frankly 230 is not punitive enough. FB Goog and Twit should be nationalized and made part of the post office.

And censorship of content should be the same rules as applies to mail.


14 posted on 01/08/2021 1:15:59 AM PST by Reverend Wright (Biden is like Robert Mueller: a senile frontman for radical left interests)
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A full-blown mutiny of the opportunists


15 posted on 01/08/2021 1:21:11 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: blueplum

America is officially over, January 6th is the day the music died.

Amerika is born on January 6th.

The Revolution was televised.

Hail Hydra!


16 posted on 01/08/2021 1:22:03 AM PST by Quentin Quarantino
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To: blueplum

I like Trump a lot but he has done one crappy job of picking his aides, heads of agencies and cabinet members. It’s almost as though being disloyal was one of his selection criteria.


17 posted on 01/08/2021 1:24:32 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: cba123

I trust more people see what you see but alas, most do not pay attention or are to scared to fight back.

JoMa


18 posted on 01/08/2021 1:24:42 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: blueplum

We must not ignore foreign sources that meddle in our internal affairs like Reuters or the Brit press.

They are just as much our enemy as the democrats and as such should receive the same response.


19 posted on 01/08/2021 1:36:12 AM PST by hank ernade (armchair macho bravado EverTrumper)
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To: aquila48

“I like Trump a lot but he has done one crappy job of picking his aides, heads of agencies and cabinet members. It’s almost as though being disloyal was one of his selection criteria.”

The republicans were the only pool available to him.
Had he chosen from outside that pool the GOP swine would have pulled their daggers sooner than they did.

Quit nitpicking it gets old fast.


20 posted on 01/08/2021 1:42:14 AM PST by hank ernade (armchair macho bravado EverTrumper)
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