Twitter: when François Ruffin flies to the rescue of … Donald Trump

 

Twitter has made the decision to ban Donald Trump after the violence on the Capitol on Wednesday, January 6. The personal account of the outgoing President of the United States, which still has the official @Potus account until January 20, has been suspended “permanently” due to “risk of further incitement to violence.” A decision that received a mixed reception, including from the French political class. Particularly on the far left. LFI deputy François Ruffin denounced “digital censorship”.

“Trump is not my cup of tea,” François Ruffin wrote on Twitter. But the now definitive closure of his Twitter account seems scandalous to me. According to him, this would be an obstacle to freedom of expression. “Should we delegate our freedom of expression to the giants of Silicon Valley?” Tomorrow, it will be for all of us, this digital censorship, and private. ”

Trump accuses Twitter of “muzzling” free speech

For his part, Donald Trump, deprived of his preferred means of communication, reacted to his eviction from Twitter via the account of the presidency.

“Twitter went even further in its muzzling of free speech and tonight Twitter employees coordinated with Democrats and the radical left to remove my account from their platform, to silence me – and YOU, the 75,000,000 great patriots who voted for me, ”he wrote. A post eventually deleted by Twitter.

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