Facebook Oversight Board’s Trump Ban Decision

Conservatives blasted Facebook and its Oversight Board for upholding an indefinite ban on former President Trump on Wednesday.

"It is a sad day for America. It’s a sad day for Facebook because I can tell you, a number of members of Congress are now looking at: Do they break up Facebook, do they make sure that they don't have a monopoly? And I can tell you that it is two different standards, one for Donald Trump and one for a number of other people that are on their sites," Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows told "America's Newsroom."

Horace

It's like there's some kind of widespread cultural syndrome based on a deranged fear and hatred of Donald Trump. They should make a name for that.

Loki

@george-k said in Facebook Oversight Board’s Trump Ban Decision:

It will be interesting, to say the least, if Trump decides to run in 2024.

Will FB actually prevent a presidential candidate from being on the platform?

The January 6 attack on the Capitol was really really unfortunate and Trump was in the neighborhood making unfortunate noises. I guess if he is advancing unproven conspiracy theories and insurrection he should be banned but I am thinking outloud about possibly legit reasons.

Jolly

@loki said in Facebook Oversight Board’s Trump Ban Decision:

@george-k said in Facebook Oversight Board’s Trump Ban Decision:

It will be interesting, to say the least, if Trump decides to run in 2024.

Will FB actually prevent a presidential candidate from being on the platform?

The January 6 attack on the Capitol was really really unfortunate and Trump was in the neighborhood making unfortunate noises. I guess if he is advancing unproven conspiracy theories and insurrection he should be banned but I am thinking outloud about possibly legit reasons.

Well, what's interesting about the Capitol riot is that a lot of it is pure horseshit.

It was not an armed insurrection, as we were told.
Calling the riot an insurrection is stretching the word a mite. There was never an attempt to overthrow the government. There were some people who thought the government wasscewing around with the vote franchise.
Trump never called for any type of violent insurrection or riot. He never used words that had not been used by his opposition many, many times.
The only person killed because of the riot was an unarmed protester shot by Capitol Police. Look at the bright side, if she had been BLM, the ensuing crowd would have burned the Capitol to the ground.

Copper

Yup

A few doofusses taking selfies

Loki

@jolly said in Facebook Oversight Board’s Trump Ban Decision:

@loki said in Facebook Oversight Board’s Trump Ban Decision:

@george-k said in Facebook Oversight Board’s Trump Ban Decision:

It will be interesting, to say the least, if Trump decides to run in 2024.

Will FB actually prevent a presidential candidate from being on the platform?

The January 6 attack on the Capitol was really really unfortunate and Trump was in the neighborhood making unfortunate noises. I guess if he is advancing unproven conspiracy theories and insurrection he should be banned but I am thinking outloud about possibly legit reasons.

Well, what's interesting about the Capitol riot is that a lot of it is pure horseshit.

It was not an armed insurrection, as we were told.

Calling the riot an insurrection is stretching the word a mite. There was never an attempt to overthrow the government. There were some people who thought the government wasscewing around with the vote franchise.

Trump never called for any type of violent insurrection or riot. He never used words that had not been used by his opposition many, many times.

The only person killed because of the riot was an unarmed protester shot by Capitol Police. Look at the bright side, if she had been BLM, the ensuing crowd would have burned the Capitol to the ground.

Watching the Capitol invaded changed my point of view on a number of things. Anti covid vaxxers reinforced it. I’ve been around a long time, most things don’t move me much.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

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Copper

"we're paying for the servers, your account is free"

Debatable

Mik

TNCR - ahead of its time.

Rainman

I don't understand how this stuff works, I don't have a Facebook account, no twitter, and I still don't have enough hours in a day.

Couldn't Trump open fake accounts, say what he likes, and when he gets the John Trump facebook account closed for example, he then opens up yet another, like Delbert Ho. He could hire someone to do nothing but open up fake accounts on all social media sites day after day.

Would it work, if he wanted to do something like this? AFAIK, it doesn't take a social security number to open an account. What am I missing?

Axtremus

@rainman said in Facebook Oversight Board’s Trump Ban Decision:

Couldn't Trump open fake accounts, say what he likes, and when he gets the John Trump facebook account closed for example, he then opens up yet another, like Delbert Ho. He could hire someone to do nothing but open up fake accounts on all social media sites day after day.

Would it work, if he wanted to do something like this? AFAIK, it doesn't take a social security number to open an account. What am I missing?

It won’t work if the objective is for Trump to get the message out to his followers because a large portion of the followers of Trump are a cult of personality, not a cult of idea or ideology. They follow Trump even when Trump contradicts himselves from one day to the next, and they ignore anyone who says the same things that Trump used to say as long as that someone is not Trump.

Rainman

Thanks, Ax!
So, what you're saying is he could open fictitious accounts, but nobody could find him because he would have no following. Got it.

taiwan_girl

I think Ax is pretty much right. People follow Presdient Trump because of who he is more than what he says. His policies are not the "brand", he is the "brand".

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Facebook Oversight Board’s Trump Ban Decision