After expressing disgraceful “I feel your pain” sentiments about the rioters, Trump urged them to “go home and go home in peace.” that day, was too little, too late, but it wasn’t incitement. This is like the US Supreme Court handing down decisions in the absence of a written Constitution, or a home-plate umpire calling balls and strikes without an agreed-upon strike zone. “In applying this penalty,” the board writes of the suspension, “Facebook did not follow a clear, published procedure.” Facebook CEO and chairman Mark Zuckerberg virtually testifies before Congress on March 25, 2021. The board underlines the astonishing fact that in reaching its most momentous free-speech decision ever in this country, in determining whether a former president of the United States can use its platform, Facebook made it up on the fly. It called on Facebook to review the suspension within six months and made some suggestions toward developing rules to follow in such cases, which has an “Alice in Wonderland” quality to it - verdict first, rules about whether the verdict is correct later. In its wisdom, the Facebook Oversight Board said that it was “not permissible” for Facebook to impose an indeterminate, standard-less penalty of indefinite suspension on Trump - then upheld the suspension! It isn’t clear what the best solution is, or even if there is a solution, but there is obviously a problem. Trump is an open invitation to political actors to swoop in to reduce the social network’s power or write new rules for it, and, indeed, Trump-friendly Republicans are making loud calls for action. If Facebook had set out to demonstrate that it has awesome power over our speech and is wielding that power arbitrarily, it wouldn’t have handled the question any differently. The firm then kicked the matter to its “oversight board.” On Wednesday, the board kicked the ball back into Facebook’s court. 7, the day after the Capitol riot, Facebook indefinitely blocked Trump. If so, they didn’t have anything on the amorphous and tendentious deliberations of Facebook regarding who is allowed to post on its social network, most pertinently former President Donald Trump.
It is said that medieval scholastic philosophers debated how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Georgia’s early-vote surge shows the smears about its voting law were complete nonsense Trump's humiliation in Georgia was even worse than you know Gaffe-prone blowhard Biden is no Churchill: Rarely have so few had to clarify so much Pols ignore mass shootings we can do something about: gang violence Dems fool themselves on Biden's aging because the alternative - Kamala Harris - is even worse
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