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I thought we just heard for 6 months that private companies can ban whoever they want…

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Did you read somewhere that Facebook didn't have the right to do this?

There's a difference between legality and ethics.

What exactly were the ethics behind removing any reference to wuhan institute of virology being the source of covid?

Ethics to you does not mean ethics to me.

Okay great, let's discuss the ethics of twitter banning the sitting president of the united states. This is ridiculous. Those of concerned by the ridiculous excusal of this behavior as being okay because they're 'private companies' made this argument many months ago only to be told we're in favor of overriding human rights.

At the time he was banned he was actively attempting a coup. Many of his followers still believe he will be reinstated as POTUS and he has done little to disabuse them of that notion.

Considering the riot in the capitol building started while he was giving a speech during which he asked those listening to him to make their voices 'peacefully heard'.

Many other American politicians were behind similar riots and get away with it. For example, the riots surrounding the nomination and confirmation of Justice Kavanaugh where the Supreme Court building was stormed.

Actually Twitter suspended trump two days later. Now that we have more evidence of trump trying to have the DOJ to lie in order to keep him POTUS it is hard to argue that Twitter was in the wrong. Their actions were certainly ethical as the coup attempt was still in progress.

Many of his followers still believe he will be reinstated as POTUS, allowing him the bullhorn of his Twitter account would be unethical as it would make it easier to galvanize these folks into action again.

> Many of his followers still believe he will be reinstated as POTUS, allowing him the bullhorn of his Twitter account would be unethical as it would make it easier to galvanize these folks into action again.

That's quite ridiculous. Twitter was more than happy to back open rebellion in other countries, such as those in the Middle East. It comes down to a matter of what is Twitter (and Facebook). Are they just platforms, or are they in the business of publihing certain opinions.

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