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Look at all the (US) companies banning as soon as he's out of office when there is significantly less political reason to keep face... https://www.axios.com/platforms-social-media-ban-restrict-trump-d9e44f3c-8366-4ba9-a8a1-7f3114f920f1.html
That's a clickbaity tweet but it's important to think about what the ban means beyond the conversation of what's free speech (as part of the US consitution) and the power of (also US) tech companies to decide these things. It's not a simple as 'regulate!' https://davidallengreen.com/2021/01/trumps-social-media-ban-in-perspective-the-unpalatable-difficulties-of-regulating-political-and-media-activity-in-the-internet-age/
See also this great thread by @AmarAmarasingam on the impact of deplatforming https://twitter.com/AmarAmarasingam/status/1348147867739975681?s=20
We need to more broadly consider our online systems, break away from our current structures, and reimagine online spaces in the form of commons and digital public infrastructures https://www.journalismliberty.org/publications/what-is-digital-public-infrastructure
