Posted on 06/04/2021 2:16:13 PM PDT by conservative98
Facebook announced Friday that it will ban former President Donald Trump until at least 2023 — with Trump shooting back, “Next time I’m in the White House there will be no more dinners, at his request, with Mark Zuckerberg and his wife. It will be all business!”
The decision means that Trump might still be able to regain access to his Facebook and Instagram accounts in time for the 2024 campaign if he seeks a rematch against President Biden.
But Facebook said it may decide to ban Trump even longer than the two years — and White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki endorsed that consideration at her daily press briefing.
Psaki said social media companies must censor “disinformation” and that “we learned a lot from President Trump, the former president, over the last couple of years about his behavior and how he uses these platforms. It feels pretty unlikely that the zebra is going to change his stripes over the next two years. We’ll see.”
Former British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, who works as Facebook’s vice president of global affairs, announced the two-year ban.
“At the end of this period, we will look to experts to assess whether the risk to public safety has receded,” Clegg said.
“We will evaluate external factors, including instances of violence, restrictions on peaceful assembly and other markers of civil unrest,” he added. “If we determine that there is still a serious risk to public safety, we will extend the restriction for a set period of time and continue to re-evaluate until that risk has receded.”
Trump fired back in a pair of statements Friday, blasting Facebook for “censoring and silencing” his political movement.
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Trump: not if, WHEN he’s back in the White House.
Sooner than later I hope.
This.
As a corporation there isn't much you can do about it except cut off Facebook and not use their product.
When did they ever dine together?
If FB did this to the Rats, there would be Hell to pay.
Forget it. Unless we are willing to fight and the evidence since the stolen election says that we are not. At the first hint of President being returned to the Whitehouse the Left will put up one hell of a fight. The Republican Party will do as they did in 2020. Join the Democrats to lie, cheat and steal to keep him out of the Whitehouse. The Left, including the Republican Party is willing to fight to keep him out of the Whitehouse. We are not willing to fight to put him in the Whitehouse. That is the difference.
It’s not just a corporation when they are in bed with the governement and take away someone’s First Admendment rights.
*Amendment
Private White House dinners with Suckerberg. What were we getting out out this? Thanks, Trump.
They are not taking away Trump's First Amendment rights, as Trump has clearly shown. He's free to make any comments he wants.
yes because we are pussies and they are not
Hey, Kauai patriots
He surfs
Trump was too trusting. He seemed to assume that people would deal with him honorably.
Why do you hate my constitution?
2019. Apparently at Trump's invitation. Link
And Trump’s short lived blog had a Facebook tracker. He tried to suck up, didn’t work.
Without Facebook how will Trump know what his aunt had for dinner?
Facebook is a joke.
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