Recall that Facebook and Twitter CEOs have gone a step further in blocking, indefinitely, president Trump's accounts.
However, big tycoons, both supporters and non-supporters of President Trump, are speaking out against Big Tech’s far-reaching ability to censor people.
Below is some of the reactions from them:
Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow said:
“Facebook, Twitter, they all took down the President’s accounts. They took down Sydney Powell’s. They took down General Flynn’s, all my friends are out there. So many that are in the media, they took down theirs. They took them all. We had all social platforms so they’re not going to be able to get these messages out there, and it’s their livelihood. This is the danger we’re in right now.”
A lawyer for the ACLU has also condemned social media companies, namely Facebook and Twitter, for the move, saying it is a thing of concern that these companies wield the unchecked power to remove people from their platforms that have become indispensable for the speech of billions.
The former Fox News host Megyn Kelly, who has been an outspoken critic of President Trump has also questioned the move. She claimed it targets people on the right or those who are not woke.
"If you’re on the right or not woke or want to raise Q’s about the integrity of our electoral system, you’re next."— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) January 9, 2021
In a series of tweets, Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny said Twitter’s decision against Trump is “unacceptable.” He believes officials based the decision off of emotion and political preference.
"I think that the ban of Donald Trump on Twitter is an unacceptable act of censorship (THREAD)"— Alexey Navalny (@navalny) January 9, 2021
Navalny blasted the social media company for letting unknown people ban accounts by a process the public is unaware of.
“Don’t tell me he was banned for violating Twitter rules,” Navalny said. “I get death threats here every day for many years and Twitter doesn’t ban anyone.”
The Russian opposition leader, who was poisoned late last year, is calling for Twitter to create a committee that can make such decisions.
"If @twitter and @jack want to do things right, they need to create some sort of a committee that can make such decisions. We need to know the names of the members of this committee, understand how it works, how its members vote and how we can appeal against their decisions.— Alexey Navalny (@navalny) January 9, 2021.
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January 10, 2021
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