Trump showed the problem with calling Facebook and Twitter platforms
The so-called deplatforming of Donald Trump has provoked misguided cries of censorship and injustice. Thinking about powerful for-profit corporations like Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon as platforms is a fundamental misconception that lets the companies off the hook. These internet services are publishers and they have a right, and a duty, to exercise judgment. After years of poisoning the civic well with his unique brand of lies, insults, distortions, narcissism, and overall poor manners, President Donald Trump has found himself deplatformed. My spellchecker doesn't like this word, and I do...
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