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Restrictions on Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram lifted

www.bbc.com Restrictions on Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram lifted

Meta lifts final restrictions and says US voters should be able to hear from presidential nominees.

Meta has lifted the final restrictions on Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the run up to US presidential elections in November.

The ex-US president and convicted felon’s accounts were suspended in 2021 after he praised supporters who stormed the US Capitol on 6 January.

Trump’s accounts, which combined have over 60 million followers, were re-instated in 2023 but subject to additional monitoring, which has now been removed, the social media giant said in a blog post.

Meta said it had a responsibility to allow political expression and that Americans should be able to hear from presidential nominees on an equal basis.

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Meta said it had a responsibility to allow political expression and that Americans should be able to hear from presidential nominees on an equal basis.
Meta said fascists should have their voices heard. Zuck's a coward, what a fucking surprise.
- Trump recently threatened multiple times to jail zuck. I wouldn’t be suprised if that had an impact on this decision.
  
  Zuck’s a coward, what a fucking surprise.
  E: though tbf it wouldn't surprise me one bit if he's letting trump back on the platform because he wouldn't mind him winning. After all, trump is good for billionaires, there's no question about that..
  
  Terrorism works I guess.

Meta is cancer that has metastasized
- so that's what meta is short for

I hope they know they should hide Mark Zuckerberg’s grave, because that thing is going to be so vandalized when he goes. Ill be the first to take a huge messy shit on it.
- You're assuming this country won't be blown up before that time. I doubt any of us poors will live to see the day these assholes die. I've always wanted to watch trump have an aneurysm while at his Hitler esk rallies. Sadly that probably won't happen.
  
  We won't see it, but at least we will die with other people. They're going out just like those billionaires on the Titanic sub - alone in a hostile environment, scared, banking stupidly on their own hubris instead of science.
- The worst of our generation. Like the single worst person from Millennials by a long shot.
- Hey, it is rude to shit in a urinal!
- Thermite. Ensure that his body gets destroyed
  
  Don’t deny future generations an opportunity. Mummify him and stick the mummy in a pillory.
  
  Seal the neck with fire

That makes sense. It's hard to foment an insurrection or race massacre when most of your loyal soldiers don't use Truth Social.
- Also, it doesn't make sense to give him tons of money ands then restrict him on your website at the same time too.

That’s meta Being scared that Trump is going to win

A few days after trump threated to arrest zuck after the election? What a surprise

I'm sure this time he will respect the rules.

at this point, the people who STILL support trump are going to vote for him regardless. all this accomplishes is giving him another outlet to spew ridiculous bullshit that demonstrates his idiocy and/or incriminates himself
- there are still undecided voters and/or unmotivated voters.
  
  sorry, if someone's trying to claim they're "on the fence" about whether to vote for trump or biden, then they just don't want to say out loud that they're voting for trump because they know they'll be (rightly) ridiculed by whoever's in earshot
  unless they know they're surrounded by troompa loompas. in which case all of a sudden that "on the fence" bullshit goes out the window
- Which allows him to mobilize and weaponize their idiocy. ¡No bueno muchachos!
- Yep his poll numbers went up after he was originally banned. Could be a coincidence, but it does make sense.

Oh wow what terrible timing

Gotta let a traitor be traitorous because the country might decide we want to overthrow the country again...
- I'm pretty sure 'the country' decided against overthrowing 'the country'. The Minority Against Governing in America was largely rebuffed. Though I'm deeply concerned that they have not stopped planning their insurrection, and will try again.
  "3 years later, Jan. 6 by the numbers: More than 1,200 charged, more than 460 imprisoned for role in Capitol attack" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/3-years-jan-6-numbers-1200-charged-460/story?id=106140326
  
  It took the Nazis two tries as well.

And this is why I'm glad I quit using this shit website three years ago.

Why now? Idiots.
- $$$
- “All I can say is that if I’m elected President, we will pursue Election Fraudsters at levels never seen before, and they will be sent to prison for long periods of time,” Trump wrote. “We already know who you are. DON’T DO IT! ZUCKERBUCKS, be careful!”
  At the very least, even if Zuck isn't the best example, it's worth considering that the further conservatives descend into fascism, the more we'll see people take the easier option of not resisting.
  
  The amount of projection is incredible.

Not the best decision.
- Sure it is--for profits. If Trump gets reelected, all those pesky government regulations about the environment and securities will be thrown out window.

Meta said it had a responsibility to allow political expression and that Americans should be able to hear from presidential nominees on an equal basis.
I hate to say it, but they're right. They can't silence one of the two candidates for the presidency.
- Yes they can. They are a private corporate and can do whatever they want as long as it doesn't target a protected class, and it doesn't.
  And in particular, they didn't silence him because of politics, but because he was conspiring with insurrectionists. Active treason. Stochastic terrorism.
  
  And in particular, they didn’t silence him because of politics, but because he was conspiring with insurrectionists. Active treason. Stochastic terrorism.
  Has he been convicted of that? We can all wring our hands as much as we want, and god knows I'm not a Trump supporter, but Facebook are not going to embroil themselves into a legal battle over this.
  
  The problem is that it fundamentally makes them a political org to choose one side over the other. There are very strong arguments that insisting on "no political discussion" is an inherently conservative stance, but by allowing one candidate to speak but the other to not they are implicitly supporting the former.
  And the US Government has made it clear that they don't consider a violent insurrection to be treason. So why should facebook go to bat and make themselves an even bigger target come January?
- I would say that staging a coup definitively breaks the TOS.
- Imagine piping up to defend the non-existent "right" of a self declared fascist to spew his lies. 🤯
  Careful not to choke on that boot...
  
  The fact you think I support Trump or Facebook tells me all I need to know about the quality of the discourse in this thread. No wonder the left can't get anything done in your shithole of a country.

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