These companies can ban the US President from their platforms. What makes you think they can't ban yours - you don't even have any nuclear launch codes...
Vindictive actions like this are rarely profitable, they tend to scare people off from doing business with you.
Anyway Meta's customers, and the only entities it cares about, are large ad buyers. None of them will give a crap about this random app and these random human beings getting banned. This has zero impact on their ability to continue writing checks to Meta and continue getting in front of your eyeballs.
If anything Meta's customers will be happy about the ban since this app caused fewer people to see their ads.
The business of social media is ads. In the US the vast majority of social media ad spend goes to Meta. Thus, monopoly.
Google and Meta hold a duopoly over digital ad spending in general.
The FTC agrees and is suing Meta for monopolizing social media and the "metaverse." Anything could happen with these lawsuits but they wouldn't be doing this if they didn't think they had a good case.
Good, you should be able to choose who you do business with, or at least that’s what conservatives argued for years.
It's only a matter of time until the Leftist tech platforms ban a critical amount of content producers and make themselves irrelevant. After all, each creator you ban represents a multiple of monetizable viewers that you just partially or totally told "don't come to my site".
Take Rumble for example. It still has a substantial amount of gristle, but a growing amount of mainstream content. It is also now a publicly listed company undergoing hockey stick growth at a time when most companies are not.
I hadn't heard of Rumble until now. But I'm just seeing some putin defense, covid conspiracy, and joe biden is a terrorist videos. And the UX is early 2010's.
I don't think you should be able to ban someone because you don't like them. If it's the case that you should, why doesn't Facebook scrape off and ban known sexual offenders list? Criminals? Should someone that beat their exwife in 1987 really be on Facebook, let alone be able to look up his victim?
I personally think people should be allowed on unless they break the actual rules of the platform on the platform.
What you’re talking about is the platforms relenting and finally enforcing their own terms of service. In this case, _not_ giving a president special exemption from rules that would have caused another user to be banned.
The only special treatment they applied was ignoring their rules for years. Your imagined persecution was simply equal treatment.