Posted on 01/11/2021 4:43:57 PM PST by blam
Germany and France are shocked over Twitter’s decision to permanently ban President Trump from the platform, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel saying through a spokesman that lawmakers should set rules governing free speech, not private technology companies.
“The chancellor sees the complete closing down of the account of an elected president as problematic,” said chief spokesman Steffen Siebert during a Berlin press conference, according to Bloomberg. Siebert added that rights like freedom of speech “can be interfered with, but by law and within the framework defined by the legislature — not according to a corporate decision.”
Meanwhile, French leaders are similarly outraged – with Junior Minister for European Union Affairs, Clement Beaune, saying he was “shocked” that a private company made such an important decision.
“This should be decided by citizens, not by a CEO,” Beaune told Bloomberg TV in a Monday interview, adding “There needs to be public regulation of big online platforms.”
Earlier, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, said that the state should be responsible for regulations, not “the digital oligarchy,” adding that big tech is “one of the threats” to democracy.
Europe is increasingly pushing back against the growing influence of big technology companies. The EU is currently in the process of setting up regulation that could give the bloc power to split up platforms if they don’t comply with rules.
Twitter permanently banned Trump last week after it decided the outgoing president’s tweets breached its rules against gloriyfing violence. It cited his posts on the riots in the U.S. capital.
The move followed similar action by Facebook. Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said Trump’s most recent posts showed he intended to use his remaining time in office to undermine a peaceful and lawful transition of power. –Bloomberg
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I agree. Europe will probably start creating their own social media infrastructure as it’s become clear there are no longer any adults in the room in America. If Russia was smart they would try to market their own social networks like VK as a way to get even with Washington.
Maybe Al Gore was prescient and really did invent the Internet for these purposes................
President Trump can sue Twitter, maybe get billions.
Section 230 of the Telecommunications Act says Twitter can be stripped of protections against liability because of censorship against Trump. Trump could also sue Twitter for defamation.
If we remain a capitalist country.....70+ million people is a nice market.......only IF! ...but i despise ALL politicians! Don’t give me a name....They ALL suck.....me,me,me,me,me,me,me
Twitter hasn’t been around that long. Why is it so hard to go back to pre-twitter days?
Of course. any decent people would be.
Absolutely, but I fear it's too late.
Boycott Big Tech. Shop local, don’t go to Amazon. No need for social media when you can go to the local bar instead?
You can blame Clinton’s Telecommunications Act of 1996 for a lot of it.
They aint real friendly with them over there.
The gubermint wants complete control and these shenanigans buy the big tech companies will result in a huge blowback and eventual take over. They’ll have to pay big bucks to offer their services to these gubermints or they wont get to offer their services.
“Section 230 of the Telecommunications Act says Twitter can be stripped of protections against liability because of censorship against Trump. Trump could also sue Twitter for defamation.”
If that is true. he may get enough money to run again without contributions.
Or build himself a hell of a resort and sit back and take it easy. Cost to stay there is low for his supporters and rather high for the scum who will come crawling to him for donations the next elections.
Tyler Durden is the nomme de plume of a pro Russia bot farm. Under that name, all manner of usually true but highly contentious content is written.
Take care.
“Shocked, shocked, There’s gambling going on in this establishment”, as the Tweeter and Facebook reps give their payoffs to the French and German government officials.
They started right after the crash in 2008. Always have to read anything with that understanding and a jaundiced eye. The real (several write under the name but one is the original) Tyler Durden’s father was in Bulgarian intelligence.
Big Money & Power are held by the left . . . in contrast to the oft-proclaimed angst of the left’s theatrics in “the arts.”
Shocked they say...oh pllleeeease
Shocked, my derriere.
The countries that gave Europe Bertelsmann Arvato, the link tax, the meme ban are shocked?
Hardly.
But they are pleased.
Very, very pleased.
“Is there not one honest democrat in congress?!?”
Outgoing Congresswoamn Tulsi Gabbard .??? .... she did not vote to impeach the first time .......
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