The Trump Suspensions, Big Tech and Section 230 on Can’t You Read

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Editor’s note: today’s article about Trump’s social media suspensions, Big Tech companies and the potential repeal of Section 230 comes to you from my image blog “Can’t You Read” and is being linked here as part of my ongoing fight against online censorship. If you like this piece, please help me get eyeballs on my work by sharing a link to it someplace else on social media.

Actually, the Cake is a Lie

Admit it; you smiled a little, at least inside, when you found out Trump’s social media accounts had finally been suspended in the wake of the January 6th, 2021 chud insurrection attempt on Capitol Hill. I know that I did, and who could really blame us? As we discussed last week, Trump’s social media posts have a body count and rich cracker fascists getting suspended for organizing a revanchist coup online, isn’t exactly a free speech issue; Downmarket Mussolini should have been suspended a very long time ago, quite frankly.

And therein of course, lies the rub; why now, or rather, why two weeks before Trump leaves office? If Big Tech suspended Trump for inciting violence, where exactly have they been the past four years? If Trump just got suspended for inspiring an insurrection attempt, how come he wasn’t suspended back in the spring when he tried to do the same thing during the anti-lockdown protests? Does this have anything to do with the fact that Joe Biden also wants to repeal Section 230? Am I really supposed to believe billionaire crypto-libertarian Tech Bros suddenly care about the carnage their services are enabling, when they’ve spent the past five years proving that they most certainly do not? Because quite frankly, I don’t, and I decided to get to the bottom of the decision to ban Trump; a decision I agree with and sincerely wish had happened much sooner.

The devil is in the details today over on Can’t You Read as we ask is it even possible for Big Tech companies to both do the right thing, and for the right reasons?

“Naturally then, the obvious question becomes, if Trump was suspended for inciting deadly violence on January 6th in D.C., why wasn’t he suspended for doing exactly the same thing before now? Hell, I’ll do you one better; if Trump is suspended for inciting reactionary violence and murder, then why aren’t guys like fascist provocateur Andy Ngo, and Wilks Brothers muppet Ben Shapiro (who himself has inspired an international body count) also suspended? Right, it simply doesn’t track, and therefore we can conclude that Trump’s social media suspensions really didn’t have anything to do with inciting violence.”

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The Trump Suspensions, Big Tech and Section 230

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