Former First Lady Michelle Obama is calling on social media giants to banish President Trump from their platforms forever.
Obama says such a move is necessary to silence Trump for good. TheGrio further reports on her remarks.
“Like all of you, I watched as a gang—organized, violent, and mad they’d lost an election—laid siege to the United States Capitol. They set up gallows. They proudly waved the traitorous flag of the Confederacy through the halls. They desecrated the center of American government. And once authorities finally gained control of the situation, these rioters and gang members were led out of the building not in handcuffs, but free to carry on with their days.”
— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) January 7, 2021
“Now is the time for Silicon Valley companies to stop enabling this monstrous behavior—and go even further than they have already by permanently banning this man from their platforms and putting in place policies to prevent their technology from being used by the nation’s leaders to fuel insurrection,” she writes. “And if we have any hope of improving this nation, now is the time for swift and serious consequences for the failure of leadership that led to yesterday’s shame.”
Earlier, Mark Zuckerberg indefinitely banned Trump from Facebook and Instagram following the rioting on Capitol Hill. Twitter has deleted several of the president’s tweets and threatened a permanent ban.
In her post, Obama called this spring and summer’s protests, which lead to repeated riots, an “overwhelmingly peaceful movement.”
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