Germany and France Oppose Trump’s Twitter Exile
Germany and France attacked Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. after U.S. President Donald Trump was shut off from the social media platforms, in an extension of Europe’s battle with big tech.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel objected to the decisions, saying on Monday that lawmakers should set the rules governing free speech and not private technology companies.
“The chancellor sees the complete closing down of the account of an elected president as problematic,” Steffen Seibert, her chief spokesman, said at a regular news conference in Berlin. Rights like the freedom of speech “can be interfered with, but by law and within the framework defined by the legislature — not according to a corporate decision.”
3 comments:
In the 1930’s the democratic socialist party of Germany burned all literature and books that it deemed un-nazi like. Now in the 2020’s the democratic socialist party of the United States of America is doing exactly the same with social media.
No, the books that were burned in Germany were subversive and pornographic.
History, philosophy, etc, wasn't burned. And the only thing Merkel was mad was that the government should be in charge of banning, not private companies. Laughable
That last point, about Merkel and the government, was a good point. The first point, I doubt.
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