President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 3, 2019, in Washington.
— Donald J. Trump May 3, 2019 Facebook and the White House did not respond to a request for comment. The First Amendment pertains to government regulation of speech, not tech giants’ efforts to craft and implement their own policies that seek to prevent harassment and abuse online. In doing so, Facebook pointed to its efforts to remove users who “promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless of ideology." Before its permanent ban, Facebook had taken more limited action targeting users such as Jones, who has threatened journalists and attacked the victims of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Jones and others sharply criticized Facebook for its decision.
He also said his administration is “looking into” Facebook’s handling of Diamond and Silk, two pro-Trump video bloggers who have charged that the social-networking site has limited the reach of their content. Facebook initially labeled their videos as “unsafe,” though it later apologized for the incident and said last year it tried repeatedly to work with the duo to address their concerns.
No paranoid been happening since he got elected...you can watch the censorship hearings..we have been bringing this up for months..
hoo Please give me a break
Weakness gains you nothing with this guy, only way to handle him is to confront him nonstop, day after day.
When will you adapt to the fact that almost all of the President's statements are lies? When will you provide that context to readers? Until you do, you are doing the public a disservice.
President of Peoples Temple strikes again.
I gather he is referring to the rights of Russian bots working for the Kremlin
“Monitor the censorship.” That’s like saying he’s going to keep watch over Waffle House to make sure it lets customers bring giant confederate flags to lunch. The owners make the rules, not govt. Alt-righters who don’t like FB’s decision can take their views elsewhere.
realDonaldTrump perhaps some social media needs to be abolished too much human trafickking etc. Thank you very much President our countries cyber abilities are astronomical! Read 'The Age of the Spiritual Machine'!
You mean fairly. Like trying to say Louis Farrakhan is right wing. Oh that's right Obama, Waters, and Holder must he right wing too.
Bas silicon valley hired the pres. to be their PR person? What does he get in return.
WTH is wrong with the press & MSM we are adults call a lie a lie when it is a LIE!
They are targeting the removal of abhorrent views, that are stoking fear, hate, and violence. These just happen to align perfectly with conservative world views.
Not calling out lying is lying.
This administration is like the movie Invasion of the body snatchers and it seems to be spreading each day and there's no Kevin McCarthy character to save the day. They just want us to go to sleep and when we awake it'l all be over, there will be Borsht on the menu.
Conservative views deserve targeting!
Facebook banned right wing but Islamic terrorist organizations or domestic ones(antifa) still have their pages up
And media is no fine with censorship. Instead of covering the story they would rather attack Trump for suggesting it. How about looking it to it?
Because that’s definitely and undeniably true
He’s not wrong on this one.
Jim_Jordan DevinNunes POTUS Sounds like the Nazi playbook to a T. Brought to you by FB, the DNC, and the Clinton/Obama weaponized agencies. Eliminate free speech and weapons, then brutally eliminate the opposing point of view. Censorship leads to rigged elections and violence
Kathy Griffin chopping off the POTUS head was still there yesterday. Why? Because censorship and brutality is the only way to stop movements you don’t agree with. Just ask the Nazi’s markz
Would it kill you to say that there is no basis for his views.
Call Putin, that always cheers you up DD!
Wow.
Your news is he tweeted about the obvious .
Trump has no idea what being a conservative even means.
Bottom line is censorship is actually occurring. This is not American
He is completely insane.
They should monitor his utterances closely as he has a tendency to incite.
Dm me for your Bitcointrading
He’s right
Either we are all free...or none of us are free!
Well if conservatives would stop peddling in hate then maybe they can also be on Facebook.
Because it is true, journalist.
Those weren’t conservative views
As long as rules are followed there will be no censorship. It's only against community standards if conservatives do it, those are the rules.
They'reAllAgainstMe Don'tHurtMyBase
Does it make them anti nationals or straight traitors, if so, book them.If not suffer them with a grin
lie gaslight lie gaslight complicit collaborator
Social media is WHY HE WON. .
Ban fox
Trump needs to know his audience. California is not a conservative State. If he wants a social media platform for haters, he’s going to have to buy one.
Of course you should mention that this is all a lie
Really? He never cleans his actions...he sends under qualified personnel to do so, even from foreign countries. And he hates Puerto Ricans, too.
More coming his way.
Well it’s happening and it’s BU££$H!T
Lies. Trump's lies. Say what it is.
Can you just say “lie?” It’s not that hard
And he is absolutely correct
As borne out by unassailable evidence and, by the way, statements of employees.
Liars gonna lie.
They do target conservatives. They attack the first amendment. Trump is right to criticize them and bring national attention to the issue. That’s the story.
The word is LIE. He lied.
Since Trump tries to block and often attacks liberal views, who is he to complain.
And FOX plays Deranged Donny live in 3D amplified. They don’t call it state TV for nothing. It’s censored from reality with no basis for truth. Since he is part of that he created a foe in Silcon Valley.
You can say, 'lies about'
just say he lied
The tech giants will have to face a reckoning. They can be open platforms where anything goes or be treated as publishers and be open to lawsuits.
Dear Vlad, thinking of you, love Donski...
If you were good journalists, you would note that Trump's claim is a fabrication, and that it's part of a pattern of fabrication
2/2 wants to be, he wants to beat the worst leaders in the last 50 years Putin, Castro, Maduro at their own game. He cons and cheats to enrich his family.
You misspelled “lies”
The whiner in chief wants to shut down everything and anyone that is not on his side. His opinion is the only one that matters and counts. This is how it all starts to become another Venezuela!! Maduro owns the military justice department media all of it. That’s what con man 👨
from the guy who slanders the 4th estate for daring to report facts about his misconduct and horrible judgments? The guy who did nothing about a US journalist being kidnapped and murdered by the creditor to his son-in-law? potus realdonaldtrump Millgrist1
They should read the terms of service. Constitutional free speech does not apply to internet forums. I can't post my junk on Instagram, and cry free speech when I get banned. Also, Twitter has a massive right wing bias, they'll never ban Nazis but leftists can get get banned easy
You missed the fact that these are all lies - would be cool if a news organization told some objective truth here and started with the fact that none of this true. Cool.
Conservative views. We have conservative views. Most Blacks are conservative. What about hiring Blacks in Silicon Valley and stop stealing their work and putting your names on it. This is not 9th grade💋💋
Maybe they should block Trump for lying propaganda.
You didn't challenge his lie. This is reinforcing a lie.
he is not a conservative. just an opportunist so full of himself
Go ahead, WaPo. Tell us how wrong Trump is so we can sit back and watch him make you look foolish once again. Don’t you get tired of looking stupid?
.... censor Trump. Yeah.
This is not normal
Social media companies enforcing their terms of service (finally), is not an infringement of first amendment rights. Maybe you could clarify that instead of just transcribing whatever crazy shit flies out of his mouth?
say what actually happened! he made up a claim of censorship in which first amendment rights are not at play specifically regarding a tweet in which a famous conspiracy theorist called for mass executions with a dang hashtag
From Middle School logic class: Facebook is banning conspiracy theorists, racists, and anti-Semites. Trump says this is a ban on conservatives. Ergo, Trump confirms conservatives to be conspiracy theorists, racists, and anti-semites. Hey! We agree on something!
The great divide to isolate Caucasians means they will be conquered, easily, all of them, everywhere. But ok you didn't want to fight to unite kids, were too busy to help Brown people, too proud to help Jews on welfare or Blacks freed from slavery, 45=A BIG FAT HUMAN MOISSANITE.
how are his followe counts? when is twitter going to purge the bots? realDonaldTrump jack
More like a broadside against the Constitutional right of a private entity to set rules of behavior on their own property.
This man is dangerous
What is he the censor Nazi! That is a complete abuse of power.
Wow,the king only monitors his opponent's censorship,nothing about his ,& his administration's censorship
The Silicon Valley investors have enough money and power to over throw Trump and his kleptocracy.
The First Amendment protects a private company such as Facebook to control their own platform Users must adhere to their rules (just like a bar reserving the right to throw belligerent, unhinged nuts out) Don't like it? He's rich: let him start 'Trumpbook' & ban all liberals
Yet, DNC could turn table on realDonaldTrump by metering foxnews bias/censorship guided by Murdoch and other media monopolies like Sinclair. Imagine when POTUS SenKamalaHarris calls into CBSThisMorning or TODAYshow & seeing programming plan changed for her
'Views'
FacebookPrison TwitterPrison InstagramPrison WhatHaveWeBecome ...SocialMediaHo's? FreeJamesWoods
gonna point out the claims are completely absurd or naw?
Yeah. They are banning racists so... yes, they are targeting conservatives and basically the trump and gop base.
Someone has to look into it. It seems as though social platforms rely on status as private companies to police the free exchange of ideas. But a private baker can be forced to bake a wedding cake + a doctor can be forced to provide services that go against their conscience.
His attention span in like 30 seconds, so not too worried.
'censorship' 'journalism'
When Trump lies on Twitter to mislead the public, Twitter should ask him to delete his information. It's clear that Trump lies a lot on Twitter.
Trump tweets which violate Twitter terms of service should be red bordered with warning: This tweet would not be permitted except for news worthiness PatThurston CillizzaCNN NYTScience POTUS
If Trump means he’ll BE ON social media 24-7 to monitor, then yeah, we get that. Nothing new there
They are only targeting conservatives. This is obvious to anyone.
If only they censored Trump’s tweets that violate policy. It has rules and everyone should have to follow the rules.
WAPO, c’mon, lol! It’s true-you do it too! Not the WAPO I remember, for sure. More like a rag mag.
I'm sick of his whining and complaining about being treated unfairly. Always the victim.
Because of course he has nothing better to do.
Is there anything or anyone that Trump is not attacking?
Please explain why it's unfair do you think Luis Farrakhan, Alex Jones, Milo, and PrisonPlanet are dangerous? Farrakhan is all hot air the rest pretty much harmless. So why were they banned?
And you all know he's right again.
Has anyone told him “Conservative “ does not equal “Racist”?
Oh. My. God. 🙄
Washington Post doesn't have a problem with people being censored, especially when they are not Islamic espionage operatives or social justice scammers
He ain’t doing sh*t. Otherwise where will the lunatic MAGAts gonna go to spread nonsense?
Who knew spewing hatred had consequences 🤔🤷🏻♀️
'..and we have what's known as FREEDOM OF SPEECH.' And he is going to monitor social media.Right!! His delivery is like that of a 2nd grader in front of the class. What a dummy! MONITOR THIS!!!
Because it’s true?
'It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.'
Trump will use this to delegetimize the 2020 elections if he loses.. just watch. He will not leave the Office peacefully.
POTUS still has people blocked from his Twitter account, in violation of the First Amendment.
If by conservative, you mean vile, hate-filled conspiracy theories and racist rantings, they should. Oh and, is there really any 'free speech' claim since social media is not a government entity?
Doesn't a president have more important things to do than sit on his couch and monitor 'censorship?'
He blocks people so we see the irony.
Why would any conservative EVER have voted for Chump He was never a conservative till he decided to run as one-- and he did so for one reason... Take it away, Jared!
In Related News: Trump invited a cadre of conservative mommy bloggers to advise him on his 2020 re-election campaign. The key talking point of the meeting: *strategies to make the president's whites whiter* EggBoyHero
so much whining
The Scalise shooter was an avid Rachel Maddow and Bill Maher watcher. Maybe anyone spewing anti-GOP rhetoric should be banned from Twitter as well. AlexJones LauraLoomer
WOW realDonaldTrump , because we need more of this hateful trash on the internet?
How about censoring the FAKE President's pie hole? WhiteHouse
Thank you for protecting Americans civil right! God Bless You!😎🇺🇸
Should we be surprised? Being held accountable for your own actions seems like a foreign concept for these people...
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