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It’s Time To Delete Facebook
They’ve Been Trash For A While
We all know social media didn’t actually start enforcing any rules restricting, suspending or banning Trump’s hateful rhetoric until we were in the 2020 presidential election. They were not being cowardly. They were concerned with their bottom line.
That’s why Facebook is banning Trump now. Also mind you, this ban is temporary and it will lift in 2023. It has nothing to do with Trump’s constant misinformation, or inciting violence. He talked about violence on his campaign trail before he was elected. Time and again, Trump responds with bullying, lies and childish threats and Facebook had little issue with it.
Facebook’s neutral stance has always allowed hateful rhetoric that targets the most vulnerable communities to flourish. Of course, like any true social media claiming neutrality, if you as someone in a marginalized community push back against the hate your repercussions are often swift and merciless. Seriously, I’ve seen people suspended from social media for telling someone to slip on a banana peel.
Trump, as president, brought in traffic. People were railing, cheering, cursing and damning him. It doesn’t matter if the responses were positive or negative because it was still attention. A hate view is still a view. Attention means traffic.
