ACLU Blasts Big Tech After Suspending President Trump From Platforms
A legislative counsel member from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) issued a statement blasting social media companies for their decisions to suspend President Donald Trump indefinitely from their platforms.
Senior Legislative Counsel for the ACLU, Kate Ruane, issued a statement speaking out against Facebook and Twitter’s decision to indefinitely suspend President Trump from their platforms warning against the companies’ “unchecked power” and the dangerous precedent it sets.
Steve Herman, the White House Bureau Chief with Voice of America News posted the ACLU statement on his twitter account.
The Tweet is embedded below:
“For months, President Trump has been using social media platforms to seed doubt about the results of the election and to undermine the will of voters,” Ruane stated, but adding that the decisions from Big Tech should “concern everyone.”
Ruane additionally stated the following:
We understand the desire to permanently suspend him now, but it should concern everyone when companies like Facebook and Twitter wield the unchecked power to remove people from platforms that have become indispensable for the speech of billions – especially when political realities make those decisions easier.
President Trump can turn his press team or Fox News to communicate with the public, but others – like many Black, Brown, and LGTBQ activists who have been censored by social media companies – will not have that luxury. It is our hope that these companies will apply their rules transparently to everyone.
President Trump has been indefinitely suspended from Twitter, Instagram, Twitch, Facebook, Shopify, Pinterest, and several other platforms.
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