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Originally Posted by TheChief
So now the bigger question...
Where can us loyal Trump supporters go to hear the president now that they have effectively silenced his free speech by banning him from the biggest social media platform in the world.
As referenced in this thread there are tons of people who love this but at its core is it right?
The answer is a resounding "no".
This just proves everything the president has been saying the past 4 years.
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It really doesn't. What it proves is that inciting and stoking aggression and violence on government institutions and fellow citizens has consequences. It's simply not allowable in this day and age. Trump was more than free to debate others in whatever civil or petty manner he chose to, use every legal avenue under the sun to contest the alleged injustices, resolve his differences with discussion and even gather his supporters in a pandemic, but he chose the least civilized road possible, in a western democracy where these things are no longer acceptable or allowed because literally hundreds of years of progress were spent TO eliminate exactly this sort of political behavior.
When you use your freedoms this way you willingly choose to give up your freedom to be heard (through those platforms). There are very few restrictions, but the ones that do exist are clear. Trump should've thought about that before telling his crowds to march on the capitol. He's 100% responsible for his fate here, and he gave the social media platforms no other choice. They cannot be complicit in providing a medium where he can encourage these demonstrations where property is damaged, and people get hurt and killed.
This is the 21st century western world. It's #####ing 1+1, elementary, simple ####. He failed to comprehend it.