Meta, the owner of social media platforms, after just over two years of suspending Boy Orange from Facebook and Instagram, announced yesterday that it would reinstate the “the former guy’s” access to its social platforms.
Holy Agatha Raisin!
Yet again, free speech in a democratic society is verging on becoming a sick joke.
The cost of Donald John Trump‘s “free speech” has been very real. So, at least, let us NOT pretend that it has anything to do with freedom.
Civil libertarians NEVER seem to get it right when they allow free speech to impose!!! costs on others.
But…
That suits the speech-ifiers and insurrectionists just fine. Free speech absolutism [like gun rights absolutism] gives them the cover they need to go about imposing!!! costs on others.
ALL absolutist ideas are inherently flawed, contradictory, and ultimately dangerous.
It is unclear whether Trump will again become active on Facebook and Instagram; remember he started Truth Social, in which he has a financial stake and where he is obligated to make his posts available exclusively for six hours before he can share them on other sites, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Trump can post to any site immediately if the messages pertain to political messaging, fund-raising or get-out-the-vote initiatives.
Sounds like the normal playground rules still apply for the Orange Despot!!!
Stay hydrated, kids.
h/t: CNBC.
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