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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think Kimmel show should have been suspended by ABC for his comments.

[b]But I also don’t think Trump should have been banned from Twitter.[/b]

The trouble with cancel culture is that when you support it based on the speech you disagree with when your “side” is calling the shots (and making the behind-the-scenes directives to Twitter—as it were), it will always come back to bite you when the people you can’t stand are the ones on the power positions.

But you can’t just get outraged and whine “censorship!” only when it’s the speech you agree with that’s getting shut down and the people on your “team” who are losing jobs! You have to be willing to stand up for everyone’s right to say what they want. You have to be willing to say “hey I don’t have to agree with what that guy said but I support his right to say it!”

That’s how this American freedom thing works. And that’s how we protect it. Speech that everyone agrees with does not need protection. [/quote]

As a reminder, Trump wasn’t randomly banned from Twitter. He was banned on January 8, 2021, primarily due to the platform's concerns over his posts inciting violence following the January 6 riot. Twitter cited two specific tweets from his account,, which they believed posed a risk of further violence. The first tweet praised his supporters, calling them "American Patriots" and saying they would "not be disrespected," while the second suggested he would not attend Joe Biden’s inauguration. Twitter interpreted these as potentially encouraging further unrest, especially after the Capitol attack by his supporters. The company stated that, given the context of recent events and the potential for his statements to be interpreted as endorsing violence, they permanently suspended his account to prevent additional harm.

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