{"id":8783,"date":"2023-01-27T17:37:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T16:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/27\/facebook-is-allowing-trump-back-the-platform-hasnt-learned-its-lesson-jan-werner-muller\/"},"modified":"2023-01-27T17:37:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T16:37:18","slug":"facebook-is-allowing-trump-back-the-platform-hasnt-learned-its-lesson-jan-werner-muller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/27\/facebook-is-allowing-trump-back-the-platform-hasnt-learned-its-lesson-jan-werner-muller\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook is allowing Trump back. The platform hasn\u2019t learned its lesson | Jan-Werner M\u00fcller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump has never shown the slightest repentance for his role in what Facebook gingerly calls \u2018civil unrest\u2019<\/p>\n

It was left to Nick Clegg \u2013 once a great hope for liberal politics in Britain, nowadays cutting a sad figure as global lobbyist for a company with major PR problems \u2013 to announce that Facebook was open to Donald Trump\u2019s nefarious business again. The decision was wrong, but it hardly spells the end of democracy, as alarmists equating<\/a> Facebook with an inevitable triumph for fascism might think. What the decision does, though, is confirm the breathtaking hypocrisy of a corporation seemingly unable \u2013 or unwilling \u2013 to learn from its complicity in repeated political disasters.<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton never stopped being pilloried for her \u201cbasket of deplorables<\/a>\u201d speech in 2016. However, the fact is that Trump and plenty of his supporters have said and done things which are<\/em> deplorable. The really scandalous part was her casual remark that some Americans were \u201cirredeemable\u201d. But democracy is based on the notion that no one is irredeemable, that we should never give up on fellow citizens, hard as it may be. Those who have engaged in anti-democratic actions must have the chance to convince others that they have changed their ways.<\/p>\n

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\nTrump has never shown the slightest repentance for his role in what Facebook gingerly calls \u2018civil unrest\u2019
\nIt was left to Nick Clegg \u2013 once a great hope for liberal politics in Britain, nowadays cutting a sad figure as global lobbyist for a company with major PR problems \u2013 to announce that Facebook was open to Donald Trump\u2019s nefarious business again. The decision was wrong, but it hardly spells the end of democracy, as alarmists equating Facebook with an inevitable triumph for fascism might think. What the decision does, though, is confirm the breathtaking hypocrisy of a corporation seemingly unable \u2013 or unwilling \u2013 to learn from its complicity in repeated political disasters.
\nHillary Clinton never stopped being pilloried for her \u201cbasket of deplorables\u201d speech in 2016. However, the fact is that Trump and plenty of his supporters have said and done things which are deplorable. The really scandalous part was her casual remark that some Americans were \u201cirredeemable\u201d. But democracy is based on the notion that no one is irredeemable, that we should never give up on fellow citizens, hard as it may be. Those who have engaged in anti-democratic actions must have the chance to convince others that they have changed their ways. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trump has never shown the slightest repentance for his role in what Facebook gingerly calls \u2018civil unrest\u2019 It was left to Nick Clegg \u2013 once a great hope for liberal politics in Britain, nowadays cutting a sad figure as global lobbyist for a company with major PR problems \u2013 to announce that Facebook was open …<\/p>\n

Facebook is allowing Trump back. The platform hasn\u2019t learned its lesson | Jan-Werner M\u00fcller<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8783"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}