Facebook suspends Trump for 2 years

Our Country can’t take this abuse anymore!

Trump once again projecting. He’s right. The country can’t take his abuse anymore.

You don't deserve a platform if you use it to spread lies and hate.

Tempest in a teapot. Trump will soon be forgotten, which is what angsts him most.

Trump’s mouth is a public menace. He should’ve been banned permanently.

Trump is a crybaby loser.

FB owes you nothing, Donald.

this censoring and silencing

Facebook is a private company, like Fox, Newsmax, or OANN. It can do what it pleases. At least it makes a modicum of effort to put a lid on dangerous misinformation.

After what he has done, and what his sheep, both the unthinking and self-serving, are still doing to this country adding a zero to that number would be more appropriate.

It won’t stop him lying though.

He can start his blog again, bah hah hah. Not even the right wing loons bothered to read it previously

As much as I detest Trump (and I truly do) I equally detest Mark Zuckerburg who once stated unapologetically that people that trust him with their information are stupid &^#s (words which cannot be repeated here). That is the reason I never used Facebook. The move is obviously political based on the timing of the ban (i.e. 2 years which ensure ban through nearly all of the next election cycle).

Facebook, Twitter, etc. are not government agencies however they are afforded exemptions from certain regulatory requirements (they donate alot to politicians). They are major platforms used by politicians and it is an issue related to the 1st Amendment which the writers of the Constitution could not have anticipated.

It is ironic that many Americans seem to be OK with the Social Media companies aiding China with their censorship efforts and also censoring Americans whose viewpoints they do not like.

I am a Liberal and we used to say in Berkeley, California: "I may not agree with what you say but I will fight to the death to defend your right to say it".

This was decades ago and seems no longer to be the case or general opinion of a large segment of Americans. It is quite obvious what is going on in the U.S. and even some of my much further left friends are starting to wonder what the heck is going on.

The latest revelations about the Wuhan Lab and Fauchi and the reversal of the media and some of these companies on this issue and now "allowing" or promoting discussion of what they once banned not so long ago are waking a bunch of people up.

admit it, you all miss him

We don’t

and you know he’s coming back if you don’t do something.

No, no he’s not. He’s going to prison.

But sadly there is nothing to do. Even Banning him from Facebook, curiously until after the 2022 elections.

please do tell us more about all your bets.

> typical liberal activity. 

Make up something we have never heard of, then keep repeating it claiming we said it and support it.

That’s strange. The ex President posted it on his own blog, just before it got shut down. It’s funny you didn’t hear about that.

Must have been that shadow cancel banning culture optic thingamajig again eh.

bass4funkToday  10:33 am JST

...the more they try to silence the guy, the stronger and more determined his base grows.

It's not actually going to grow though, is it? The majority of Americans have demonstrated in elections that they want nothing to do with self-righteous blowhards determined to make tits of themselves.

lowering the unemployment rate for blacks

What jobs, specifically? Also, Trump cancelled net neutrality. Also, TrumpCare is a failure.

keeping the border secure

Ladders and shovels?

making the US energy independent

Texas?

Also, Trump promoted using Mr. Clean to fight COVID-19

But Trump is returning to the WH in August

No wonder people left Facebook in droves

Did they?

How about, "No wonder people left the republican party in droves" after January 6.

This secures the election of Trump. Even far-left libs will be outraged by this censorship.

it’s not censorship and we are fine with it. We had a meeting at the pizza place last night.

FB has NOT violated any laws, contrary to your conspiracy theories.

Wish it had been permanent, but if they abide by their own rules, he’ll never be allowed back because he is a danger to the public.

But I’ll take it. Hopefully he will be in prison or expired by then.

President Obama won two terms, has a Grammy, an Emmy, and a Nobel Prize; has Twitter and Facebook accounts; and a successful blog....

Donald Trump was impeached twice during one term, has been banned from Facebook and Twitter, had a failed blog, and is the subject of two current criminal investigations...

Pretty easy to tell who the Loser is...

but people hate him for being right

That is a perspective.

I do not like 45 because of the damage he has done to the democratic principles the republic is. built on. And also because of the way he has continued to further splinter the country along race, religion and class lines. And because he is one of the most dishonest politicians the country has ever seen. And he has never cared about the country, only about his bank accounts. And the bank accounts of his family. Trump has been right, about as far right as anything the planet has seen since the 1930s. And almost as far right as Russia today

the left are afraid of the guy and blocking him in this manner is so far the best way to keep him publicly silent

Don't forget the right are not smart enough (remember Trump people are often undereducated or brainwashed like Jim Jones followers who think he's coming back to the WH in two months) and they don't have enough computer programmers to work on Trump Social Media. It's a fact, on average Trump people are less intelligent. Some are alright, but as a group, not that smart.

No one elected Zuckerberg or Dorsey to anything.

But they are smart and competent compared to Parler CEO John Matze. Comparing Matze to Zuckerberg or Dorsey is like comparing a coal running steam engine to a Tesla.

After the GOP retake the White House

Yes, in two months as Trump and his followers belive

When you silence the opposition and take away their platform

WRONG!

There is FOX News, OAN, NewsMax, and InfoWars. Also, the evengelical churches. For social media there is Parler, NRA TV, and Trump's Blog. What's the problem.

bass4funkToday  11:07 am JST

Well, we don’t know exactly what all Americans think.

That's what elections are for.

When you silence the opposition and take away their platform or dissent, how can you in all honest know who, where your support rests and how many accurately?

You seem awfully sure about those 78 million people you keep mentioning.

Also, as we know his rallies were a huge magnet and influence...

Obviously they didn't influence people that much. Trump still lost by quite a wide margin, as even judges he appointed himself don't dispute.

By then he will be in prison or have died of natural causes.

ROFL

donald’s blog getting shut down, Facebook kicking him off for another 2 years and the criminal investigation into his shady businesses picking up.

Not a good week for donald.

Then if that is true, there is absolutely no need to silence the guy on social media, Zero.

Parler and the Trump Blog? He is not silenced.

Then if that is true, there is absolutely no need to silence the guy on social media, Zero.

Except that whole insurrection business. Most Americans don't like Trump, but he does have some idiot supporters who are well-armed and more than willing to use violence in support of Donald. There is no reason FB needs Donald on Facebook, zero.

And still retains his base to the astonishment of the Democrat machine.

His base? lol The base that never gave him the popular vote? Cool story.

Uh-huh…

Brilliant retort.

Trump could make his own social network. Hold on a moment, he did that but no one was reading it so he pulled the plug.

Not quite, but that’s ok

For ONCE you are correct.

Trump is far to cheap and lazy to make a competent social media platform.

Should have been suspended until Jan 21, 2024 or death. Which ever happens first. Mr. President-Ex isn't getting any younger.

Our Country can’t take this abuse anymore!”

I agree with Trump on that, but suspect his idea of abuse and mine are different.

It sure is nice to have a President who is actually Presidential and not petty.

This is why I love Trump, he knows how to equally troll the left as much as left loves to troll him. Lol

I prefer a President who does his job rather than pursuing petty Twitter feuds and obsessing over plumbing.

But each to their own I suppose. It takes different strokes.

A 2 year Facebook ban for inciting an actual violent insurrection seems like a really light sentence. But it's better than nothing I guess. People can still read his blog anyway. Oh wait...

I’m still curious what he has supposedly done that has “prison” as a result. But ok good luck! Maybe he can bunk with Fauci

I don't know, Black; Tax fraud, bank fraud, illegal campaign contributions, you know exactly like his attorney went to jail for making. You sound awfully cocky for being the supporter of a man whose organization is the subject of a grand journey.

cause that’s only way he or his candidate doesn’t win. No more “special” coronavirus voting processes next time.,

lolololol Donald should try winning the popular vote for once. The dude's lost the vote in every election he ever ran, stone cold loser.

Just because a company is a a private company does not mean it can violate laws.

If facebook or twitter had violated any laws by banning trump, they would have been successfully sued and charged with violating the law. Can you tell us was laws they violated exactly? Because in actual fact, all I see is that Trump violated facebook and twitter's EULA, and was therefore rightfully banned.

Two years? Should have been two decades minimum.

boss mode activated.

He was the end boss in Final Fantasy 2020, he lost.

“Next time I'm in the White House there will be no more dinners, at his request, withMark Zuckerbergand his wife. It will all be business!" Trump said.”

Wait, I thought Trump was censored and silenced? Are you telling me he STILL can actually speak freely and transmit his idiotic messages to the populace?? What an incredible turn of events.

I don't care what Trump says about anything.

Aww diddums.

Complain that Facebook is for ‘woke lefties’ then complain when he can’t use it. Presidents should be doing their job not gossiping about Bette Midler.

Anyway, I thought he was going to build his own successful media platform. Great, quit whining then.

Why only two-years? I’m sure if I’d been as incendiary, they have sent me packing forever.

along with other platforms that ban and censor.

So, all of them then? Even ‘Frank’ bans and censors. You’re living in a fantasy.

 thats not prison anyway

Then who is going to prison for stealing the election from Trump? And what every happened to Hillary's prison conviction?

So with those and the daily press releases, dont need Facebook or Twitter.

On what channel? InfoWars?

You seem awfully sure about those 78 million people you keep mentioning.

This is one of B’s consistent “inaccuracies.” It wasnt 78. It was 74.

Funny thing is, even that is less than Biden’s 81 million. This tells us 2 things:

1) not even his supporters believe he won.

2) This is an attempt to make his humiliating defeat less so. They’re trying to make it seem closer than it was.

FB won't be relevant in two years.

Place a bet on that, your life savings. I’m sure you’ll clean up.

The most surprising thing about the 2020 election is that 74 million people actually voted for... Donald Trump. Can you imagine that?? A man who doesn't know the difference between the words "oranges" and "origins".

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-mueller-report-oranges-wind-farms-noise-cancer-a8852111.html

Let that sink in. Actually showing up to the polls and voluntarily deciding to cast your vote for president for a man who doesn't know what happened at Pearl Harbor.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-pearl-harbor-memorial-tour-john-kelly-stable-genius-2020-1

Seems completely insane, doesn't it??? Yeah...

“In August when I'm in the White House there will be no more dinners, at his request, withMark Zuckerbergand his wife. It will all be business!" Trump said.”

Why does Trump hate FB so much? He's coming back in August.

they had to over do the fraud to the point of unbelievability because Trump got so many more votes the 2nd time he ran.

The auditors are finding this and Trump will return in August.

That’s why Trump said that, he knew you guys on the left would be doing what you’re doing now, you took the bait. This is why I love Trump, he knows how to equally troll the left as much as left loves to troll him. Lol

The problem with this is the large number of morons and hysterical conspiracy theorists Trump attracts. People with a reasonable IQ and a balanced temperament see this trash for what it is, but there are some who take this seriously. Look what happened with his stolen election stupidity.

Trump needs to speak at the level of the slowest kid in the class, and his particular class is filled with students with their shoes on the wrong feet and jumping out of windows.

@Tokyo-Engr

As much as I detest Trump (and I truly do) I equally detest Mark Zuckerburg who once stated unapologetically that people that trust him with their information are stupid &^#s (words which cannot be repeated here). That is the reason I never used Facebook. The move is obviously political based on the timing of the ban (i.e. 2 years which ensure ban through nearly all of the next election cycle).

Facebook, Twitter, etc. are not government agencies however they are afforded exemptions from certain regulatory requirements (they donate alot to politicians). They are major platforms used by politicians and it is an issue related to the 1st Amendment which the writers of the Constitution could not have anticipated.

It is ironic that many Americans seem to be OK with the Social Media companies aiding China with their censorship efforts and also censoring Americans whose viewpoints they do not like.

I am a Liberal and we used to say in Berkeley, California: "I may not agree with what you say but I will fight to the death to defend your right to say it".

This was decades ago and seems no longer to be the case or general opinion of a large segment of Americans. It is quite obvious what is going on in the U.S. and even some of my much further left friends are starting to wonder what the heck is going on.

The latest revelations about the Wuhan Lab and Fauchi and the reversal of the media and some of these companies on this issue and now "allowing" or promoting discussion of what they once banned not so long ago are waking a bunch of people up.

Well said.

Many posters complain about these big tech companies. However most of you use Apple, Twitter, Google, Facebook, Instagram, etc. the only way to make them lose is to NOT use them...Use ALT tech. Heck, you don't even need windows nowdays. You can sever ties with Microsoft by using Linux, and still be able to post in Japan Today!

But we all know these minor details about Trump

Shouldn't it be MAJOR detail? Trump is really President and he says is coming back to the WH in August. Just wait two more months and Biden will be evicted.

can they beat Trump under usual (not COVID) voting process?

What got most people was when Trump promoted Mr. Clean to treat Covid-19

By then Facebook will be MySpace

I don't use any social media and I could care less. Then what will the next FB be? It has to be something. The deplorables can't build social media since they are not smart enough. Look at Parler and Trump's social media blog that was shut down.

and you know he’s coming back

Yes, in two months he's coming back in August to reclaim the WH as he said. Two months and NOT 2 years.

And the pseudo-fascists have their false equivalence.

Wasn't Trump elected in 2016?

And according to Trump and his followers he was elected in 2020 and is returning to the WH in August. It's good news

we will stop the steal.…

This time the GOP with ongoing support from authoritarian regimes around the world are trying to steal the 2024 election, after they failed to steal the 2020 election.

I meant to say “exclude” not encompass. Apologies.

That always takes time. DeSantis was talking about it though.

I thought he was busy suing Facebook.

You can do both. Lol

He won’t do either and you know it.

should be at least 5 years, that way FB it taken out of the 2024 election as well. Making it two years just creates possibilty where none should exist. They whimped out, should be a lifetime ban for insurrection.

What I'm most worried about this is that Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Apple, all private companies and not government entities, are beginning to decide what speech is and is not in the interest of public safety.

No way the media wont cover it. The negative articles like already written and will posted here too.

Of course they will, everyone loves a freak show.

Rallies coming again this summer. 

So with those and the daily press releases, dont need Facebook or Twitter.

So what was all the whining about then?

The 1st amendment belongs to all Americans, not just to big tech. No one elected Zuckerberg or Dorsey to anything.

Just like noone elected the moderators of japan today, and yet they can remove posts and ban at will, because it is their platform and we accept those rules when we use it.

How is twitter or facebook any different?

Well, we don’t know exactly what all Americans think. When you silence the opposition and take away their platform or dissent, how can you in all honest know who, where your support rests and how many accurately? 

Sure, it’s 78+ million. Lol.

Maybe more remarkable than whichever way Facebook decided to rule, it is a former Deputy Prime Minister of the UK (Nick Clegg) making the announcement for Facebook that a former US President can't use the platform.

So a private company found someone guilty of a federal crime that the government has shown zero interest in pursuing, let alone prosecute.

The fact is that many of the things FB cracked down on and did not allow to be spread are now being considered by the current government and supported by the media. They only called them lies when it was convenient.

Trump acts like an idiot at times, but people hate him for being right - even when it's not politically correct. (especially when)

Hmm

Facebook is concerned that Trump might influence the midterms elections.

It appears I too am a FB Felon.

Just this week I was blocked due to a response to a post.

No great loss.

Give FB a rest already

more Trump articles. Thought everyone just wanted him gone?

I should have bet the many here that said he would disappear and no one would ever hear about him in the news again. I would have been rich!

i guess they’re trying to be more like the safe space of tumbler.

they’re def gonna lose alot of people specially since they now any thing you type can trigger some someones feelings. So in other words instead of being center they are biased toward certain idealogies.

I wish facebook would ban for 2 yrs

i wish i could block mark zuck

I don’t use Big Tech companies so don’t care so much, but they put Biden in power causing the bombing of children in Gaza and pushing a nuclear war with China with detrimental effect on my life in Japan.

they are too powerful.

Let freedom of speech flourish!

But it's our freedom of speech not them.

Trump is speaking at the North Carolina GOP convention Saturday.

No way the media wont cover it. The negative articles like already written and will posted here too.

Rallies coming again this summer.

So with those and the daily press releases, dont need Facebook or Twitter.

That’s OK, I’ve suspended Facecrook for life.

Sheesh, and this country goes around the world preaching about freedom of speech...

You can block/ban the man all you want. His supporters will still be around. They won't do a ban past 2 years because he needs to be able to run his campaign in the next election, which always includes the use of social media. After Biden destroys America, Trump will have alot of rebuilding to do!

campaign contributions already thrown out of court. thats not prison anyway. Any citizen can be found guilty of bank or tax fraud. if proven. thats the hard part, its not like impeachment where you can just do it with no evidence just because you have more votes than the other side. hard, concrete evidence needed.

Cohen was only in prison because he pled guilty to lying to Congress and pled guilty to illegal campaign contributions that were found to not be illegal. He tried so hard to plead guilty to things he didnt even do so that he could flip on Trump and get that liberal adulation and sweet book deal money. ended up screwing himself.

Tax fraud, bank fraud, illegal campaign contributions,

Amusing looking back at the triggered libs from that outcome.

Very amusing. They were actually more triggered by Trump than Bush Jr. and the news corps lying to start a war.

Wait, I thought Trump was censored and silenced? Are you telling me he STILL can actually speak freely and transmit his idiotic messages to the populace?? What an incredible turn of events.

Of course he can reach millions more through social media, that’s were the silencing comes in, but the left can chuckle all they want. I still remember when they broke up the phone companies and that laughter turned to sobs for them, so Facebook and Twitter are headed that way and Pelosi knows it.

No word from Trump on his Trump Tower President's Library.

That always takes time. DeSantis was talking about it though.

Trump said he'll never invite Zuckerberg to the White House ever again. Something doesn't seem right about that statement? What is it?

I think they’re more worried after 2022 when the GOP take over and frankly, I would as well if I were them.

I thought he was busy suing Facebook

You can do both. Lol

No wonder people left Facebook in droves. Go woke, go broke.

That’s ok I would prefer to keep the focus on what Facebook is doing and how it actually helps Trump politically.

the timing of the “end” is suspect and we all know it’s just going to be extended again anyway. By then Facebook will be MySpace anyway along with other platforms that ban and censor.

FB won't be relevant in two years.

GdTokyoToday  09:10 am JST

FB has NOT violated any laws, contrary to your conspiracy theories. 

Where is it written that FB violated laws? Another left-wing conspiracy theory.

I totally do. Americans hated Trump.

Then if that is true, there is absolutely no need to silence the guy on social media, Zero.

He's a massive loser. He lost the popular vote twice. He never had an approval rating over 50%. 

And still retains his base to the astonishment of the Democrat machine.

Also, it is entirely possible Biden got more votes than Obama considering the population of the US has grown by more than 30 million over the last decade or two. 

Uh-huh…

Facebook did an incredible favor for 90% of the people here, by creating a virtual safe space.

plasticmonkeyToday  07:15 am JST

Facebook is a private company, like Fox, Newsmax, or OANN. It can do what it pleases. At least it makes a modicum of effort to put a lid on dangerous misinformation.

Not true. Just because a company is a a private company does not mean it can violate laws. That is a big misconception.

GdTokyoToday  09:21 am JST

By then he will be in prison or have died of natural causes.

Triggered much?

I do not like 45 because of the damage he has done to the democratic principles the republic is. built on.

Lowering taxes, lowering the unemployment rate for blacks, trying to downsize government, holding the msm responsible, keeping the border secure and being aggressive on visa overstayers? Giving incentives to small businesses, making the US energy independent and allowing people and all Americans equally to exercise their 1st amendment rights? Yeah, that’s a huge threat to democracy, how dare he!

And also because of the way he has continued to further splinter the country along race, religion and class lines.

No, that would be the Democrats and every minority city that they govern over. For over 60 years their policies have done what to help all of these low income and impoverished communities? And the left continue to use the race card as a crutch to support every single argument they bring up or can’t win. It’s definitely not coming from the right. They need to get their house in order first before pointing their finger at others.

And because he is one of the most dishonest politicians the country has ever seen. And he has never cared about the country, only about his bank accounts.

If that were true then the man wouldn’t have subjected his life to a job that doesn’t pay well and could have spared him a lot of political bashing and suffering. Nice try….

And the bank accounts of his family. Trump has been right, about as far right as anything the planet has seen since the 1930s. And almost as far right as Russia today

What?

It's not actually going to grow though, is it? The majority of Americans have demonstrated in elections that they want nothing to do with self-righteous blowhards determined to make tits of themselves.

Well, we don’t know exactly what all Americans think. When you silence the opposition and take away their platform or dissent, how can you in all honest know who, where your support rests and how many accurately? Also, as we know his rallies were a huge magnet and influence, so these guys know his outreach is the main power of the guy, that’s why they want to limit it. If it weren’t, he still would be on social media, but that’s ok, the rallies are scheduled to take place soon again and I want to see Zuckerberg and Dorsey go down there trying to cancel them. Good luck! Lol

Simon FostonToday  10:56 am JST

It's not actually going to grow though, is it? The majority of Americans have demonstrated in elections that they want nothing to do with self-righteous blowhards determined to make tits of themselves.

Wasn't Trump elected in 2016?

Amusing looking back at the triggered libs from that outcome.

Trump could make his own social network. Hold on a moment, he did that but no one was reading it so he pulled the plug.

Not quite, but that’s ok. Zuckerberg and Dorsey won’t be chuckling too much longer. Don’t think they’ll be able to pay anyone off to keep the House

I guess if Trump stopped spreading his Big Lie and I suppose when he's reinstated as president in the summer like he claims he can use the WH account again.

That’s why Trump said that, he knew you guys on the left would be doing what you’re doing now, you took the bait. This is why I love Trump, he knows how to equally troll the left as much as left loves to troll him. Lol

Facebook is a private company and can do what it wants.....but the government can strip away their legal protections, which they should do.

That's what elections are for.

Yes and Pelosi is very worried about our next election which is our midterms in 2022 and if I were her, I would be very worried as well.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/551602-democrats-confront-difficult-prospects-

You seem awfully sure about those 78 million people you keep mentioning.

Yes.

Obviously they didn't influence people that much. Trump still lost by quite a wide margin, as even judges he appointed himself don't dispute.

Well, now with the provisions the GOP are trying to implement: voter ID, allowing poll watchers from both political parties to view the counting process. Have it on November 3rd and ONLY on that day, no more counting late ballots unless their postmarked by the election date, then we can honestly and unequivocally maintain and uphold election integrity.

I wasn’t at the least bit shocked by the decision. I get it, the left are afraid of the guy and blocking him in this manner is so far the best way to keep him publicly silent, but what these so called genius’s don’t understand is, the more they try to silence the guy, the stronger and more determined his base grows. The same people that push and want the freedom of speech and want it applied to the left in all of its capacity, but want it limited when it involves the former President or other conservatives. This all helps Trump and rhe GOP. After the GOP retake the House, that canceling power will be on its last leg. The 1st amendment belongs to all Americans, not just to big tech. No one elected Zuckerberg or Dorsey to anything.

so it wasnt that Trump hating NY Times reporter Maggie Haberman, tweeting this nonsense out like it was true? you know the reporter the Dems said is available to "tee up" any story they need?

According to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, Trump has apparently been “telling a number of people he’s in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated [as president] by August.”

“Next time I'm in the White House there will be no more dinners, at his request, withMark Zuckerbergand his wife. It will all be business!" Trump said.”

boss mode activated.

This secures the election of Trump. Even far-left libs will be outraged by this censorship.