A conservative commentator is puzzled that the big social media companies are now more powerful than the President of the United States. A liberal analyst argues that Donald Trump must blame himself for what happened to him. Press review of budapost.de.
Mainstream social media services have banned or disabled President Trump’s accounts. Against this background notary László Bernát Veszprémy on Mandiner: This is what the balance of power looks like in the 21st century. The historian describes it as shocking that the unelected and unaccountable owners of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube & Co. could afford to cut off the elected and only 75 million-supported President of the United States from his supporters. Certainly, they are private companies. But they provide essential services and are not just a monopoly, but a cartel. Under these conditions, so Veszprémy, even a public institution would be better than private owners who would shut out people who do not correspond to their ideas.
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Áron Tábor also questions the right of private companies to use their own standards to determine what and what not to appear on the Internet. However, he thinks sothat Donald Trump’s rude rhetoric is ultimately responsible for what has now happened to him. In a comment for the weekly magazine Hungarian Orange he recalled that Trump supported a gun fanatic rally in Richmond’s Capitol Square a year ago. In retrospect, this seems like an ominous harbinger of what will happen for a whole year and which ended with the attack on Capitol Hill in Washington last week. Tábor cites several messages from Trump over the past twelve months. (In these tweets and postings, Trump had encouraged his followers to react violently to what had appeared to him to be attacks – editor’s note. Red.) All in all, the president’s rhetoric contributed to exacerbating the hatred that raged in America, concludes Tábor.
(Via: budapost.de, picture: MTI / AP / Alex Brandon)
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