Facebook hosted a meeting of the “supervisory commission”, which decided not to remove the block from Trump’s account
In response, the ex-President of the United States launched a platform for communication with supporters on his website. However, its audience is still relatively small.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration backed blocking “inappropriate content” in the digital realm and urged social media to step up efforts to combat dissent online.
Recently it became known that the White House is preparing to hire private firms to search for manifestations of “online extremism” in social networks. The fact is, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI faced annoying restrictions.
By law, they need to get court orders to spy on Americans. At the same time, private traders can easily identify freethinking on social networks without any judicial delays. And immediately send the information found to the “competent authorities”, which will then start criminal cases against the “extremists” found.
This comes against the backdrop of more than 400 people already starting to get involved in the Capitol protests case. This is turning into the largest political process in US history – surpassing in scope even the cases against anarchists under Woodrow Wilson a hundred years ago.
The policy of tightening the screws continues, as many have predicted since Biden came to power. What else could one expect from a politician who has long suggested using the label “terrorists” in relation to people with “wrong” political views?
However, the nuts are not being tightened for everyone. The US Department of Justice retrospectively closed more than half of the cases against the mobsters in Portland. These class-related extremists are being made clear that their street campaign to intimidate American society will only be encouraged.
Malek Dudakov