{"id":175612,"date":"2021-01-09T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/09\/no-longer-afraid-of-the-trumpster-fire\/"},"modified":"2021-01-09T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:53:00","slug":"no-longer-afraid-of-the-trumpster-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/09\/no-longer-afraid-of-the-trumpster-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"No Longer Afraid of the Trumpster Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div style=\"border-color: black; border-image: none; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\">\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">      Lmaooooo this the wildest ban in history. His phone just a brick       <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vnpb79Npb5\">pic.twitter.com\/vnpb79Npb5<\/a>    <\/p>\n<p>    \u2014 KB24 Forever 17x CHAMPS 7x DODGERS CHAMPS (@KarateSkool)     <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KarateSkool\/status\/1347951629878915072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2021<\/a>  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Yes, he has been banned from shopify<\/i><\/div>\n<p>  Social media sites have begun falling all over themselves to ban Donald   Trump.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p> Twitter has now <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2021\/01\/twitter-permanently-bans-donald-trumps-account-from-the-platform\/\">permanently banned Donald Trump<\/a>, Facebook and Instagram have banned   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2021\/01\/07\/trump-twitter-ban\/\">him as well<\/a>,   <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2021\/01\/reddits-largest-remaining-trump-community-banned-for-inciting-violence\/\">Reddit has shut down it&#8217;s largest Trump Group<\/a>, Shopify has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/1\/7\/22218776\/shopify-trump-store-disable-campaign-ecommerce-sites-capitol\">taken done Trump merchandise vendors<\/a>, and (rather ironically) <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/01\/07\/tiktok-bans-videos-of-trump-inciting-mob-blocks-stormthecapital-and-other-hashtags\/\">TikTok has banned Trump<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>While I do find this rather heartening on one level, I find it worrying on another.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, we are privatizing the arbiters of acceptable speech.<\/p>\n<p>The limits to speech have gone from, &#8220;Shouting fire in a crowded theater,&#8221; to, &#8220;Whatever worries Mark Zuckerberg.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lmaooooo this the wildest ban in history. His phone just a brick pic.twitter.com\/vnpb79Npb5 \u2014 KB24 Forever 17x CHAMPS 7x DODGERS CHAMPS (@KarateSkool) January 9, 2021 Yes, he has been banned from shopify Social media sites have begun falling all over themselves to ban Donald Trump.&nbsp; Twitter has now permanently banned Donald Trump, Facebook and Instagram &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[611,573,586,598],"class_list":["post-175612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-censorship","tag-donald-trump","tag-insurrection","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}