Report: Facebook Execs Believe Blacklisting Donald Trump Stopped a ‘Coup’
In a recent article, NBC News provides an insight into the moments leading up to the decision by Facebook and Twitter to blacklist President Donald Trump. One Facebook executive betrayed the depth of progressive groupthink amongst the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe when they reported said: “We don’t have a policy for what to do when a sitting president starts a coup.”
In an article titled “How Facebook and Twitter Decided to Take Down Trump’s Accounts,” NBC News describes the scenes internally at Facebook and Twitter before the companies’ decision to permanently suspend President Donald Trump from their services. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey claims this blacklisting action was not coordinated, but nevertheless, the companies show eerie similarities in their process.
NBC News writes in its account of Facebook’s decision:
Early the next morning, from his vacation home in Kauai, Hawaii, Zuckerberg held a phone call with Sandberg, Bickert, Clegg, Kaplan and other executives. Guy Rosen, Facebook’s vice president of integrity, was on the call, along with Neil Potts, the public policy director for trust and safety policy, and Chief Diversity Officer Maxine Williams, among several others.
Zuckerberg said he had decided that Trump’s attempts to incite violence and undermine the democratic process were grounds for an indefinite suspension. No one voiced a dissenting opinion, the people familiar with the call said.
Shortly thereafter, Zuckerberg published a Facebook post explaining that “the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great.”
A Facebook executive commented on the decisions stating: “This is not normal. These are extraordinary circumstances. We don’t have a policy for what to do when a sitting president starts a coup.”
A short while later, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey discussed the best course of action with Vijaya Gadde, the company’s legal chief, and a number of other Twitter executives. Dorsey approved a permanent ban, although he would later post a series of tweets noting his worries about doing so and his power to heavily influence “the global public conversation.”
Read more at NBC News here.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or contact via secure email at the address lucasnolan@protonmail.com
Bokhari: This Is the ‘Revenge of the Corporate Oligarchs’ Against Political Dissidents
Breitbart News senior technology correspondent Allum Bokhari, the author of #DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election, appeared on Lou Dobbs Tonight on the Fox Business Network this week to discuss how Big Tech has become the political weapon of Democrats and the ruling elites.
Bokhari’s book predicted and exposed Big Tech’s plans to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, said that big tech companies were increasingly subservient to the Democrat party, in much the same way that allegedly private companies are subservient to the Communist party in China.
Arm of the State: @LibertarianBlue says Big Tech now acts as the “muscle” of the Democratic Party, used to silence dissent and shape public opinion on a scale comparable to Communist China. #MAGA #AmericaFirst #Dobbs pic.twitter.com/JIhB8vWkCV
— Lou Dobbs (@LouDobbs) January 13, 2021
Transcript:
DOBBS: Joining us now, Allum Bokhari, author of DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election. He’s broken a number of stories on Big Tech power – out of control power – including Google executives saying President Trump and his populist movement will be a “blip in history.” Allum, great to have you with us, and congratulations on the book, we recommend it to our audience highly. Your thoughts about Parler, and what we have seen, an unprecedented event, all of Silicon Valley and Big Tech converging to destroy this one social media company.
BOKHARI: Hi Lou, it’s great to be on. What we’re witnessing, really, is the revenge of the corporate oligarchs. It’s the culmination of a trend I’ve been covering for five years at Breitbart News, which is the merging of the political power of the Democratic party with the unchecked corporate power of big tech giants. And by forcing Parler off the internet – one of the few social networks where you could have free speech – they’ve sent a message to an American people, ‘we are not going to allow you to have free speech on the internet anymore, you’re not going to have it again, you’re not going to threaten our power or our narratives again, and anyone who tries to do it will be destroyed.'”
DOBBS: And President Trump, paying a price in the form of political persecution for challenging the establishment as well. Parler has filed a lawsuit against Amazon for denying its contract – tearing up its contract, in effect – that keeps Parler alive. Do they prevail?
BOKHARI: Hopefully they do prevail, because it’s going to be a very important case for free speech on the internet. But it’s also important that we don’t see this as just a corporation trying to squelch a competitor. They are doing that, but it’s much more than that. It’s, as I said, the Democratic party using these giant corporations as its muscle, to squelch dissent, to stamp out competing points of view. And it’s actually very similar to what the Chinese Communist Party does. It uses so-called private corporations as an arm of the state, as an arm of political power. That’s now happening in America, and I think we’re going to see a lot more of it as Democrats increasingly call for retribution against their political opponents.
DOBBS: Indeed they are. And, Allum, we hope you will come back with us soon to discuss these very important issues. Allum Bokhari, the book is #DELETED, and we recommend it to you.
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