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In netherlands and germany officials start to question social media and start to compare it to the great firewall of china after the ban of trump and parler. It's clear big tech company's are abusing there power positions and this could very well be the end of big tech company's in the EU sooner rather then later.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa...itter-ban-merkel-spokesman-says-idUSL8N2JM4ES
https://www.ft.com/content/6146b352-6b40-48ef-b10b-a34ad585b91a
While company's can do whatever they want on there platform they are bound by rules in that country where they operate in, which means if freedom of speech needs to be deployed it should be deployed even on twitters platform. I would not be shocked if the end of social media juggernaut company's is in sight as we know it.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa...itter-ban-merkel-spokesman-says-idUSL8N2JM4ES
BERLIN, Jan 11 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has reservations about the way President Donald Trump’s Twitter account was suspended, her spokesman said, adding that legislators, not private companies, should decide on any necessary curbs to free expression.
The intervention by Steffen Seibert, her chief spokesman, reflects concern in Berlin and much of Europe at the power giant social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook have to shape public discourse.
Merkel’s relations with Trump have been frosty during the his four years in office, making her apparent decision to side with him in his objections to being removed from the platform all the more striking.
Twitter permanently banned Trump after his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington, unleashing hours of chaos in which five people died. The platform said his tweets could cause more violence.
“The right to freedom of opinion is of fundamental importance,” Seibert told reporters at a regular government news conference in Berlin on Monday.
“Given that, the chancellor considers it problematic that the president’s accounts have been permanently suspended.”
He added that Twitter’s practice of adding notes to Trump’s inaccurate tweets had been appropriate, since the platform bore a responsibility for ensuring public discourse was not poisoned by hate, lies or incitement.
While Facebook followed Twitter in banning Trump, it was the short messaging service that he made his own, leveraging a vast online following to rout his challengers in the Republican primaries and then capture the presidency in 2016.
Germans are wary of infringements of free speech, partly thanks to memories of the Communists and of Adolf Hitler’s Nazis, totalitarian regimes that ruled on German soil during the 20th century, both of which used violence and censorship to seize and hold power. (Reporting by Markus Wacket, writing by Thomas Escritt, editing by Douglas Busvine and Giles Elgood)
https://www.ft.com/content/6146b352-6b40-48ef-b10b-a34ad585b91a
Angela Merkel, German chancellor, has sharply criticised Twitter’s decision to ban US president Donald Trump, calling it a “problematic” breach of the “fundamental right to free speech”.
While company's can do whatever they want on there platform they are bound by rules in that country where they operate in, which means if freedom of speech needs to be deployed it should be deployed even on twitters platform. I would not be shocked if the end of social media juggernaut company's is in sight as we know it.
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