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Tracey Follows from forbes said that Last week, Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey banned U.S. President, Donald J. Trump, from using Twitter. Taking down his Twitter account deprived 88 million people from following Trump’s tweets and those who thought they might follow him on Parler instead were disappointed as Amazon removed the company’s access to their cloud services, banishing Parler into the wilderness of the web.
A social media storm ensued in which on the one hand many who had been putting pressure on Twitter since Facebook’s earlier decision to suspend President Trump’s Facebook account were delighted, and on the other hand much concern, from world leaders who could perhaps see where this was heading. German Chancellor, Angela Merkel condemned the move calling the Twitter ban “very problematic” and that the “fundamental right to freedom of opinion” should be determined by the rule of law and government, “not according to the decision of the management of social media platforms.”
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