Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump

Not surprising. The election of a Democrat government has emboldened them to start censoring their political enemies with less fear of government reprisal.

This should hopefully spur more competition in the micro-blogging space as conservatives are now forced to create their own alternative. Previous alternatives didn't see much usage since the biggest names like Trump were still on Twitter.

This ban seems to heavily take advantage of the current moment, as it's obvious that he has tweeted worse things in the past.

It's strange that they picked such a poor way to justify the ban when they could have made a significantly stronger case, and in doing so could have convinced millions more people that they are trying their best to apply policies evenly. For example, I have a hard time imagining why they chose to specifically quote "American Patriots", as if that somehow contributes to the straw that broke the camel's back. Perhaps they have a strategic reason for going about this how they did, but I think it will have some negative 2nd/3rd order effects. that they haven't yet realized.

I imagine we are still only in the early days of the conflicts that are to come in this sphere (and I'd include just about every company and political faction in them, unfortunately).

(Also because apparently I have to state this explicitly in every comment related to Trump: I do not support Trump, his supporters, the recent events that occurred at the capitol, etc etc)

As Trump is the President of the United States, knowing what he says is in the public's interest - until the end which is reached nowadays.

That's why this action happened now and not much earlier.

What precedent? That a private company can ban people from posting on their servers. Well, duh.

There's Parler! The FREE speech social network.