What Trump s Twitter Ban Means For The Rest Of The World
By closing Donald Trump s social media accounts, the Big Tech platforms have recognized for the first time their fundamental responsibility for the content they broadcast. But for this and other reasons that now also means the regulators must step up.
-OpEd-
PARIS Do we have the right to silence a man for taking extreme positions, particularly if we are a private company? And what if the individual in question is the democratically elected head of state? These philosophical questions have suddenly become urgent with Twitter s decision to ban the account of the American president, Donald Trump, after the whole world watched in dismay as his supporters invaded the Capitol.