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Re: Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump

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Post by adamsea »

sparker72678 wrote: post #3

Mark Zuckerberg: The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden. His decision to use his platform to condone rather than condemn the actions of his supporters at the Capitol building has rightly disturbed people in the US and around the worl…

Crazy part is that one unelected guy (Zuckerberg)has this kind of power. To make this decision at his discretion.

I mean it reads like something a head of state might say.

Nonetheless, at least they are doing it.

Re: Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump

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Post by picks_at_nits »

genghizkhan wrote: post #12

"Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete." At some point Facebook is going to have to take a stand on which one it is. Indefinitely or for the next two weeks.

Consider this a specification for a date range defining when his account will be restored. Now we can parse the statement as follows:

1. Indefinitely: The date range has no end.

2. And for at least two weeks: The beginning of the date range is at least two weeks away.

From this, I conclude that Mr. Trump's account will be muted for at least two weeks, and thereafter it could be un-muted at any time, but possibly the heat death of the universe may make the whole thing moot at some point.

Re: Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump

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Post by nomy99 »

enraged_camel wrote: post #14

I cannot believe it took them this long to realize the immense amount of harm Trump has been causing via social media. But I guess "better late than never" applies here.

Facebook has done this now because he isn't a threat anymore. Before there was a fear of imminent executive orders against Tech Giants

Re: Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump

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Post by fsdfgsfsdfsdfsd »

philk10 wrote: post #24
speeder wrote: post #10

What exactly Trump said to spark this? All information I found is rumors, that he posted a video asking people to respect the police, stop the violence and go home. Anyone has seen the video and texts in question and can tell me? EDIT: mass downvoting people, seriously? I didn't even defend Trump (or Biden), I asked a question, I am from Brazil and wanted to know what happened.

Claims he won in a landslide and that the people invading the Capitol in Camp Auschwitz t-shirts were special and he loves them

Bullshit

Re: Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump

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Post by nightcracker »

genghizkhan wrote: post #12

"Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete." At some point Facebook is going to have to take a stand on which one it is. Indefinitely or for the next two weeks.

What? They're just saying the ban is for 2+x weeks where x is an as of yet (publicly) unknown positive number. You're posing a false dichotomy.
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