On Friday, Facebook and Instagram restored the accounts belonging to President Donald Trump after they temporarily banned him last week.
The decision to reinstate his account came as a surprise to many considering the President was banned from not only Facebook and Instagram last week, but from Snapchat, Twitter, Shopify, Twitch and other websites for selling Trump merchandise.
One of the oddities from the President’s Facebook account is that his classification says “Political candidate.” We have not been able to confirm if this is what the classification was before the ban took place.
Facebook has been met with harsh backlash from conservatives and other world leaders after they temporarily banned President Trump from their platform.
On Thursday, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised to take on tech giants after they conducted a disgusting attack on free speech against President Donald Trump and his supporters.
“I can tell you that at the first G20 meeting we have, I am going to make a proposal on this issue,” López Obrador said. “Yes, social media should not be used to incite violence and all that, but this cannot be used as a pretext to suspend freedom of expression.”
“How can a company act as if it was all powerful, omnipotent, as a sort of Spanish Inquisition on what is expressed?” López Obrador questioned.
López Obrador’s Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard stated that Mexico has already started their work to get other countries involved, including “officials in France, Germany, the European Union, Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia,” The Associated Press reported.
“Given that Mexico, through our president, has spoken out, we immediately made contact with others who think the same,” Ebrard stated. “The president’s orders are to make contact with all of them, share this concern and work on coming up with a joint proposal. We will see what is proposed.”
López Obrador unleashed on the social media companies earlier in the week for suspending President Trump from their platforms
“I don’t like anybody being censored or taking away from the right to post a message on Twitter or Face(book). I don’t agree with that, I don’t accept that,” López Obrador said. “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.’ 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.”
Bloomberg News reported:
Junior Minister for European Union Affairs Clement Beaune said he was “shocked” to see a private company make such an important decision. “This should be decided by citizens, not by a CEO,” he told Bloomberg TV on Monday. “There needs to be public regulation of big online platforms.” Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire earlier said that the state should be responsible for regulations, rather than “the digital oligarchy,” and called big tech “one of the threats” to democracy.
Spokesperson for German Chancellor Angela Merkel also spoke out, saying, “The right to freedom of opinion is of fundamental importance. Given that, the chancellor considers it problematic that the president’s accounts have been permanently suspended.”
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny also backed up President Trump, calling the tech giants’ moves an “unacceptable act.”
“In my opinion, the decision to ban Trump was based on emotions and personal political preferences. Don’t tell me he was banned for violating Twitter rules. I get death threats here every day for many years, and Twitter doesn’t ban anyone,” Navalny said. “Among the people who have Twitter accounts are cold-blooded murderers (Putin or Maduro) and liars and thieves (Medvedev). For many years, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have been used as a base for Putin’s ‘troll factory’ and similar groups from other authoritarian countries.”
“Of course, Twitter is a private company, but we have seen many examples in Russian and China of such private companies becoming the state’s best friends and the enablers when it comes to censorship,” Navalny added. “If you replace ‘Trump’ with ‘Navalny’ in today’s discussion, you will get an 80% accurate Kremlin’s answer as to why my name can’t be mentioned on Russian TV and I shouldn’t be allowed to participate in any elections.”
“This precedent will be exploited by the enemies of freedom of speech around the world. In Russia as well. Every time when they need to silence someone, they will say: ‘this is just common practice, even Trump got blocked on Twitter,’” Navalny finished. “If @twitter and @jack want to do things right, they need to create some sort of a committee that can make such decisions. We need to know the names of the members of this committee, understand how it works, how its members vote and how we can appeal against their decisions.”
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Guess what Facebook and Dem-o-rats! I do believe the world pretty much joins us,, the Republicans/conservatives, on liking and believing in Our: PRESIDENT TRUMP! You may think you have won the game but looks like it was just a scrimmage, and you lost!! Must be because HE knows how to make deals and they believe he will keep them!! We, PRESIDENT TRUMP and the PATRIOT’S don’t have to blackmail, anyone, like Biden did!!
Oh, we know you have China. That is ok because we don’t want the!!!
I wqant my prison term on FB ended also. FB took away my freedom of speech. Who ever told FB they are GOD and can restrict people from expressing their views? Zuckenberg is a total jerk!!! Who does he think he is??? If he can restore President Trump’s account he can restore mine too. This 30 day jail term is ridicioulus . I don’t know what his Community standards are but he needs to redo them. He needs to growup and stop being a spoiled little BRAT!!! Maybe his mommy needs to take him over her lap and give him a good spanking.
I believe that Facebook and Twitter discriminate against conservatives. I got kicked off of Twitter for calling Kathy Griffin out for circulating the decapitated bloody head of President Trump on Twitter after it had been on there for several days. I did call her a w&ore but only after the 4th day it had circulated and I had said to take it down. How can they leave that up there but tell people to take other things down they say incites hatred. I can give 20 examples of unfair censorship where they censored something of a conservatives but not the left. I have saved every thing . Extremely biased. The media is so biased that I get upset every day over the articles they are allowed to circulate.
Far be it from me to say what President Trump should or should not do.
And clearly it is worthless to attempt to engage in a civil exchange with anti-Trumpers.
Not only do they lead with their hate, but they are oblivious to the perils, if not the obliteration, facing our democracy, & our freedoms.
It is, whether they understand the lessons of history or not, an absolute truth that when a totalitarian government finishes demolishing the opposition, it begins eating its own.
This will only be “fun” until all the Conservative voices have been silenced.
When your turn comes, and it will, it will be SSDD.
We’ll watch, silently, of course, but with a certain amount of satisfaction.
I think Facebook and Twitter is on the way out and our president will figure a way to communicate with his people. Twitter and Facebook and all the people that canceled our president, shame on you. You’ll never ever be in control again and it’s not because of our president, it’s because of you. Do you think that you are so big that you can hold our president from not speaking to his constituents.
I canceled Facebook and Twitter and I went to parlor a while ago. Look what you did to them. Don’t you think that the people of the United States knew what you did. This is shameful what you did to our country and our people and especially our president, Donald J Trump. You made it possible so that BidenWould win and that is criminal. Do you truly think that the people of the United States of America don’t know who you truly are, a traitor.
Trump needs to stay off of it, or delete it altogether until after the inauguration, I’m seeing it as a way to get him to post something they can use to point the finger at him for starting something to turn THE MARCHING ORDERS OF THE NATIONAL GESTAPO IS SIMPLE, “IF THERE ISN’T A PROBLEM, MAKEONE”. I’m willing to bet before the inauguration his Twitter account is reinstated. The Nazicrat’s are looking for a reason for Biden to declare Martial Law, funny how his account was restored after Trump started declassifying and releasing material to the public, one of Trumps biggest weaknesses is he doesn’t know how to keep his mouth shut when he should. Combat 101, expose your enemies soft underbelly.
Who cares, President Trump? Come join us over here!! The water is fine.
Wow. How great would that be? MagaDonaldTrump!