Posted on 01/10/2021 10:53:12 AM PST by Kaslin
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that Twitter and Facebook made the wrong decision in blocking President Trump from their platforms.
Lopez Obrador said the move provided a hindrance to freedom of speech in a press briefing on Friday.
"How can you censor someone? Let’s see, I, as the judge of the Holy Inquisition, will punish you because I think what you’re saying is harmful?" he remarked. "Where is the law, where is the regulation, what are the norms? This is an issue of government. This is not an issue for private companies."
In a statement later in the day, spokesman Jesus Ramirez wrote: "Facebook’s decision to silence the current leader of the United States calls for a debate on freedom of expression, the free exchange of information on the web, democracy and the role of the companies that administer [social] networks."
On Friday, Twitter made the decision to suspend Trump permanently from its platform, writing: "After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence. "
Facebook and Instagram will not allow the president to post from his account for the remainder of his term and perhaps "indefinitely," according to the company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
"We believe the risks of allowing the president to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great," he said. "Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete."
Even the leader of Mexico gets it.
Live that one down Commies.
If America’s deep-state purge and coup progresses much further, he’ll have to build the wall to keep Americans out.
Mexico also requires that you vote in person with a government ID if you are in the country
exactly
... and Mexico has honest elections.
Supposedly he’s a socialist. But he’s a honest socialist. I’ve liked what I’ve heard from him and if the Left here in the U.S. acted more like him, we wouldn’t be where we would be today.
Thanks folks.
Somehow this is going to come back to bite these corporations.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is a decent man. He was one of two world leaders who refused to congratulate Biden until the results were official.
It would undoubtedly benefit him domestically to demagogue against Trump, but he has resisted that temptation.
” Let’s see, I, as the judge of the Holy Inquisition, will punish you because I think what you’re saying is harmful? “
And AMLO goes to the heart of what’s happening.
We’re being taken back to the 15th century, where to deny the obvious lies is heresy.
And we could talk about the “religion” of the people demanding that we regurgitate their lies but that might upset people here.
But we Protestants have seen it for the last 5 centuries, and it’s why we wrote a Constitution that expressly forbid crap like this.
If a privately owned messaging service, such as Free Republic, chooses to not accept certain content or users, that’s their business, everyone move along.
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Create your own “Grand Order of the Water Buffaloes”, elect a Grand Poobah, require a secret handshake and say any damn thing you please to the choir you choose to sing with.
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Just because we have gotten used to platforms such as Twitter, doesn’t mean that we have any ownership what-so-ever and have any right to control its membership.
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Jack Dorsey controls Twitter as CEO and a minority owner.
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If like minded people are so fired up, buy stock in Twitter and take over. Until then, quite complaining.
He demonstrates his clarity of mind here.
Mexico is a problem nation. It seems so corrupt that it’s
hard to run.
I’m not familiar enough with his actual plans and actions to
judge him on the issues of Socialism.
I don’t doubt you. I just don’t know it well enough to
address that point.
I hope that Mexico will keep the illegal “immigrant” caravans out of the USA, no matter what biden or harris do!!!!
As for blocking President Trump from Internet platforms—what if their is a national emergency (e.g. attack by a foreign power) in the next several days, and our President needs to communicate with us?
Big Tech is a major national security risk!!!!
And he refused to congratulate biden until it was certain he was president.
I think he Liked having Trump as president...
The country may have become a good one.
Now biden will ruin it again
dems ruin everything they touch
Mexico has morensense than the average soccer mom.
thank you mr president of mexico
Lt the great unwashed of Mexico all “immigrate” to the US and US conservatives can go to Mexico. The guilty Sites get their poor, down trodden brown voters and Mexico gets productive citizens.
Sounds good to me.
The Mexican president needs to SHUT HIS MOUTH...otherwise his country will need to put up its own wall (as this country descends into the abyss).
Aha, That was Trump’s plan all along, to get a wall and make the Mexicans pay for it.
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