Censoring would be proactive from FB, they have actually allowed him to breach TOS before without a ban, and only this time they enforced the rules we are all subject to.
Also do we like Terms of Service now? I thought the mood across HN was that they don't really count as "consent" because nobody reads them?
When presented as dozens of pages of legalese text that you need a law degree to understand I don't think they're reasonable.
Having documented that certain behaviors will result in blocking is perfectly reasonable to me.
But that's still beside the point: there is still a fraction greater than 0% of his voters, who will feel (correctly or incorrectly) that their politician was censored. And therein lies the problem with the blocking decision.
It does not matter in any shape or form whether Facebook was right or wrong in their action in blocking Trump: This decision will radicalize more people, as a direct side effect or unintended consequence of their decision to block him due to the TOS violation. Trump is not just some internet lunatic, he is a political candidate and former POTUS that 70+ million people voted for.
> This decision will radicalize more people,
I disagree. It will remove the lightning rod and greatly remove his reach.
Introducing news was a disaster.
Censorship is in general perfectly legal, the first amendment only protects from government action, and even then, only sometimes, depending on what’s said.