[서울신문] Twitter kicks Trump out… SNS launches’Extremeism and War’

Flynn and Powell accounts for’promoting conspiracy theories’ are also suspended
Google and Amazon delete’parlor’ from app store
Controversy over freedom of expression “Communist state censorship”

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▲ The account of US President Donald Trump, permanently suspended by Twitter.
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Popular social media companies are drawing a knife to extremism after the supporters of the US President Donald Trump invade Congress.

Twitter announced on the 8th (local time) that it had permanently suspended President Trump’s account due to the risk of further incitement of violence. Until now, he has responded by temporarily blocking President Trump’s post that posted false information, but this is the reason that the congressional riots led to the judgment that stronger sanctions were necessary. President Trump’s recent tweet, stating that “75 million patriots who voted for me will make a huge voice in the distant future,” and “I will not go to the inauguration ceremony on January 20,” virtually preceded the congressional riots on the 6th. It was viewed as an act of encouraging them to imitate. In fact, on Twitter recently, there are posts about the second attack by Trump supporters or protests against the inauguration of the new administration. Twitter has also suspended accounts of Trump’s officials, including former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn and lawyer Sidney Powell, saying that it promotes conspiracy theories of far-right group Curenon.

In addition, YouTube has also shut down the YouTube podcast’War Room’ of former White House chief strategist Steve Bannan, who is close to Trump, CNN said. Previously, YouTube deleted a video of Bannon claiming that Anthony Pouch, director of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases, should be put to the White House, but after this recurrence, the account was halted for violating its guidelines. .

The parlor, which is popular with extreme astronauts as a’second Twitter’, has also been subject to sanctions by big tech (large information technology companies). According to foreign press, Google and Amazon decided to delete the parlor app from their app store. The parlor has begun to be used habitually by Trump supporters, avoiding the sanctions of existing social media, and it is known that the parliamentary intrusion case was also mocked here. Apple has also requested the parlor to delete the content in question, including articles related to the intrusion of Congress.

Trump’s removal from Twitter, such as Twitter, is the last step put forward by social media, which has been criticized for falling into a megaphone of extremism and conspiracy theories over the past four years, but it is also spreading as a debate over’freedom of expression’ in the US politics. Republican Senator Steve Danes said, “The big techs are censoring President Trump and his citizens’ freedom to speak. This was seen only in communist countries such as China and North Korea.”

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