As the
Times’ Ben Smith summarized it: “The decision has major consequences not just for American politics, but also for the way in which social media is regulated, and for the possible emergence of a new kind of transnational corporate power at a moment when almost no power seems legitimate.”
If Facebook is serious about applying its rules some of which are published, some of which aren’t to all of its users, then the company was right to suspend Trump’s account, which had become a purveyor of disinformation and violent incitement long before the January 6 Capitol riot. But Smith’s point also stands: In the absence of any definitive governmental authority, an organization that, its critics charge, offers only a fig leaf of independent judgment is going to decide far-reaching standards that could affect billions of people’s speech rights. It’s an awesome and potentially authoritarian responsibility for any entity, much less a globe-spanning tech company controlled
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