The real reason Twitter, Facebook and YouTube banned Trump

It’s not for the reasons you think.

Former President Donald J. Trump has announced he will sue Twitter, Facebook and YouTube for suspending or banning him and others from their platforms.

The class action lawsuit alleges that Trump and other plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights were violated by these bans.

Increasing numbers of people on both sides of politics distrust big tech and want them reigned in, albeit for different reasons, so Trump might have some success in the court of public opinion.

However, I think it will be an uphill battle in the court of law, despite these platforms having far too much power and abusing this power by censoring anyone they disagree with.

And this ultimately gets to the real reason why Trump was banned from social media.

Double standards

But first, a reminder of the reasons Twitter, Facebook and YouTube cited in justifying their actions against Trump.

As anyone who hasn’t been under a rock for the past six months knows, all these social media companies banned or suspended Trump two weeks before his Presidency ended on 20 January 2021.

The ostensible reason was the so-called “insurrection” on 6 January 2021, when a small number of Trump supporters and others stormed The Capitol in Washington, DC.

Put aside the fact that a real “insurrection” would have involved the military and police supporting the rioters and likely resulted in Pelosi and other opposition politicians ending up in jail or worse.

Let’s also ignore that Democrat supporters stormed the Senate building during the Kavanaugh hearings, occupied the Wisconsin Capitol for a month trying to stop a Republican Governor from signing right-to-work legislation, and many other violent actions by Democrats and other left-wing activists.

Finally, let’s also ignore that most Democrat politicians and the media themselves actively used Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to support the looters who ran riot in most of America’s major cities during the “mostly peaceful” protests in response to George Floyd’s death.

Despite Trump clearly imploring his supporters to “peacefully protest” during the rally that preceded the events at The Capitol and actively calling for peace and an end to violence when he learned of the riot after his speech, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube justified their actions by alleging that Trump “incited violence” that day.

Yet none of these platforms similarly suspended or banned the large number of media and Democrat politicians that actively supported the often-violent George Floyd riots.

Given this double standard, was “inciting violence” really why Trump was banned or suspended from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube?

Of course not.

The real reason

To understand the real reason, though, we need to go back to the 2016 Presidential Election.

Ever since Trump surprisingly became President in 2016, the mainstream media has argued it was only because he was able to utilise social media to spread “misinformation”.

That is, rather than because Trump persuaded half the country to vote for him, the mainstream media have convinced themselves that the only reason he won was because his unregulated use of social media.

Of course, by spread “misinformation”, what the mainstream media really means is that Trump was able to counter their bias by going over their heads and communicating directly with the American people via social media.

Long march

In response to Trump’s election, the mainstream media began a long campaign to persuade the social media companies to clamp down on this alleged “misinformation” and hopefully get Trump banned from these platforms.

In the eyes of his enemies, Trump had too many followers on social media and hence too much influence to shape public opinion in his favour.

Trump had more than 88m followers on Twitter, 35m followers to his Facebook page and  around 3m subscribers to his YouTube channel before these platforms moved to ban or suspend him.

Happily for the mainstream media, the same type of people who run the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and MSNBC also run Twitter, Facebook and Google.

Namely, Ivy League-educated Democrats who hate Trump.

So Twitter, Facebook and YouTube were certainly amenable to following the not-so-subtle suggestions of the mainstream media to counter Trump’s influence. For example, Twitter started labelling various Trump Tweets as “misinformation”.

Justification needed

Had Trump been a private citizen, it’s likely he would have been banned or suspended earlier that he was.

But given Trump was still President, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube were clearly reluctant to do the bidding of partisan Democrat hacks like Michelle Obama et al and completely ban him, perhaps fearing the inevitable political backlash.

What they needed was a reason to ban him – and one that at least sounded plausible enough to sell to Joe Public to justify their actions.

Unfortunately, the idiots who stormed The Capitol on 6 January provided them with just such a reason (which, more than anything else, is why The Capitol rioters should have the book thrown at them).

Now Joe Biden and the mainstream media have the ideological battlefield to themselves and can shape public opinion accordingly, with minimal pushback from their most effective adversary.

That’s the real reason Trump was banned or suspended from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

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