Facebook on Friday announced that former President Donald Trump would be suspended from the site for at least two years, ensuring that he would be silent on a large social media platform through the important semester midterms 2022.
Trump will be banned from the platform until at least January 2023 – two years after the initial suspension – at that time the company will reevaluate the prohibition and only return it “if the requirement allows.” The news is equipped with an announcement of the creation of protocols and clearer enforcement punishments in terms of severe violations of users like Trump.
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“Given the gravity of the situation that leads to the suspension of Mr. Trump, we believe his actions are a serious violation of our regulations that deserve the highest punishment available under the new enforcement protocol,” Facebook said.
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Trump was suspended without limits from Facebook in January to post burners he made during and after the January 6 attack. Superiors on the Capitol by supporters.
At the end of two years, the company said “will look for experts to assess whether the risk of public safety has receded.”
“We will evaluate external factors, including examples of violence, restrictions on peace assembly and other civil riot markers. If we determine that there is still a serious risk for public safety, we will extend restrictions for a certain period of time and continue. To re-evaluate up to risk It has receded, “he said.
Trump in a statement criticized the company’s decision, doubling some rhetoric discredited about the election that contributed to its suspension.
“The Facebook verdict is an insult to a record setting of 75 million people, plus many others, who chose us in the presidential election which was reduced by 2020. They should not be allowed to go with sensors and silence this, and in the end, we will win.. Our country is not can take this abuse again! “He said.
Previously it was not clear whether the prohibition would be permanent. After Facebook suspended Trump after RIOT Capitol, it changed the decision to the Supervisory Board which was mostly independent to evaluate whether the prohibition had occurred the correct action. After about four months, the vessel said that Facebook had acted precisely but criticized the unlimited nature of the ban. It passed the decision back to the company, giving Facebook six months to decide whether to permanently the Trump bar or to return it, and make a number of other recommendations. The new protocol announced Friday coming in response to these recommendations, Facebook said.
Facebook’s decision to ban Trump has attracted criticism from several throughout the political spectrum but specifically angered the people on the right which had canceled it as a “sensor.” Facebook acknowledged that criticism in his statement was Friday and also nodded in the fact that some on the left tended to be angry that the prohibition was not permanent. But argue that the approach “reflects the way we try to balance the values of free expression and safety on our services, for all users.”
“We know today’s decision will be criticized by many people on the opposite side of the political division – but our task is to make decisions as proportional, fair and transparent as possible, in accordance with the instructions given to us by supervision. The company said. “Of course, this penalty only applies to our services – Mr. Trump is and will remain free to express himself publicly through other means.”
