Posted on 02/18/2021 8:43:37 PM PST by cba123
Billionaire Bill Gates told CNBC on Thursday that former President Donald Trump “probably should be allowed back on” the social media services that he was removed from during the final weeks of his term.
“I think at some point he probably will be allowed back on and probably should be allowed back on,” Gates said in an interview with “Squawk Box” co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin.
Most major social media companies, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, blocked or restricted Trump’s accounts during the last few weeks of his presidency after he continued to claim that the results of the 2020 presidential election could not be trusted.
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I hope Trump builds a very successful competitor, and takes all of their business away.
That’s mighty white of you Billy.
Reporters have nothing to write about.
Yeah, it’s real convenient that now when Trump is on the cusp of helping a competing platform really take off the deep state social media oligarchs panic.
I think Bill Gates is about to be on the receiving end of some very bad news.
Surely he knows it by now.
OMG, that was exactly what popped into my mind as well, that phrase, nearly the exact wording of your post, too.
I am so sick of hearing this megalomaniac’s opinion on EVERYTHING. Seriously, who died and made him ruler of planet earth?
Sure, now that his approval numbers are nearly 60%. They’re willing to try anything.
Turbulent priest.
The Donald invests in an alternative web service and the likes of these self serving geeks wealth will have to be in competition with someone who is a ruthless businessman.
The Donald will find out that he will make a hell of a lot more in the Internet business than in real estate.
To Bill Gates I respond with a bow, “Yes, your Majesty and our Overlord”.
Yup....he comes with a built in user base of at least 80 million people....
LOL. Bill Gates might make a point here. But I fail to see how his opinion is relevant here unless we are asking him about operating system on a computer.
This means Gates is worried Trump will land somewhere big tech cannot control, or that he might launch his own and have 75 million users on day 1 and worldwide like minded people to follow.
He isn’t suddenly a free speech advocate.
I think you are 100% right.
100%
Raise your hand if you care what Bill Gates thinks about anything.
That was my initial thought too. Why go back and bring life to Twitter? It’s been flat since the election.
I don’t belong on twitter but I would join if Trump gets on a site.
President Trump would most probably be welcome on FR.
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