U.S. President Donald Trump‘s accounts in several mainstream social networks, including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, have been blocked for allegedly inciting violence. In order to continue to communicate with supporters in the network, Trump is considering switching to some colder or emerging platforms, and does not rule out the development of a brand new platform in the future.
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Twitter has permanently blocked Trump’s personal account, which he has been working on since 2009, and the accounts of some of his loyal supporters, as well as Facebook and Instagram, at least until the inauguration. Twitch and Snapchat also deactivated Trump’s account. In addition, online store platform provider Shopify canceled Trump-affiliated online stores, and online forum Reddit deleted Trump’s sub-forums.
Trump’s eldest son Donald described “freedom of speech is dead” and questioned the control of the platform by the left, making the U.S. a global laughingstock, adding that “Mao, Lenin and Stalin are laughing”; Secretary of State Pompeo also said that the left has been trying to silence people with different voices.
In the face of mainstream social networking “sniping”, Trump is planning to switch to some non-mainstream platforms, or even build a new platform on his own, he said in a statement on Friday: “We have been negotiating with different sites and will soon make a major announcement, while we are considering building our own platform in the near future.”
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However, because of the time needed to establish a new platform, Trump and his supporters will still have to “switch” to other platforms in the short term, MeWe, Winkin, TheDonald.win, Stormfront and other platforms have a lot of Trump supporters in, Gab and Parler are seen as possible platforms for Trump.
Parler, which was established only two years ago, is sought after by many conservatives, claiming to have 12 million users, and Trump’s two sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, have long been active Parler users. The platform recorded 12 million traffic sessions in 12 hours, requiring temporary server additions to cope.
Parler has become an immediate target for Internet companies. After Google, Apple announced on Saturday that it had temporarily removed Parler from its App store, saying it did not have sufficient measures to prevent incitement to violence and asked Parler to provide a detailed solution within 24 hours. Amazon also announced that it would no longer provide web hosting services for Parler and that it would cease operations from early Monday morning if Parler could not find a new server.
Parler co-founder and CEO John Matze criticized the imposition of standards that do not apply to Twitter, Facebook and even Apple, saying he would not give in to these politically motivated companies. The number of platforms is increasing and users are becoming more politically motivated.
The number of platforms is increasing, and users are becoming more politically aligned.
Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Center for Civic Media at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, said that Trump’s switch to other social platforms will cause significant changes to the online ecology. It is expected that the overall number of social platforms will increase, but the number of users per platform will decrease, and the political orientation of users will become more homogeneous, fearing that they will become more extreme. Zuckerman estimated that the future of American society will set off a round of debate on the control of online speech.
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