{"id":292619,"date":"2021-03-23T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=292619"},"modified":"2021-03-23T15:46:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T19:46:06","slug":"sanders-uncomfortable-with-trumps-twitter-ban-tomorrow-it-could-be-somebody-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sanders-uncomfortable-with-trumps-twitter-ban-tomorrow-it-could-be-somebody-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders Uncomfortable With Trump\u2019s Twitter Ban: \u2018Tomorrow, It Could Be Somebody Else\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsanders-uncomfortable-with-trumps-twitter-ban-tomorrow-it-could-be-somebody-else%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=292619&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2991.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/23\/opinion\/ezra-klein-podcast-bernie-sanders.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage\"><span>The New York Times<\/span><\/a><span> that he wasn\u2019t comfortable with the idea that former President Donald Trump was banned from Twitter back in January, at a time when Trump was still the leader of the United States.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLook, you have a former president in Trump, who was a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe, a pathological liar, an authoritarian, somebody who doesn\u2019t believe in the rule of law. This is a bad-news guy,\u201d Sanders told Times writer Ezra Klein. \u201cBut if you\u2019re asking me, do I feel particularly comfortable that the then-president of the United States could not express his views on Twitter? I don\u2019t feel comfortable about that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNow, I don\u2019t know what the answer is,\u201d remarked Sanders. \u201cDo you want hate speech and conspiracy theories traveling all over this country? No. Do you want the internet to be used for authoritarian purposes and an insurrection, if you like? No, you don\u2019t. So how [d0] you balance that? I don\u2019t know, but it is an issue that we have got to be thinking about. Because yesterday it was Donald Trump who was banned, and tomorrow, it could be somebody else who has a very different point of view.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t like giving that much power to a handful of high-tech people. But the devil is obviously in the details, and it\u2019s something we\u2019re going to have to think long and hard on, and that is, how you preserve First Amendment rights, without moving this country into a big lie mentality and conspiracy theories,\u201d the Vermont senator added.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sanders is just one of a number of politicians who have expressed concerns about the power of technology companies and that associated ramifications for freedom of speech. Twitter, where Trump was a prolific user, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/en_us\/topics\/company\/2020\/suspension.html\">said<\/a> in January that the president\u2019s account had been permanently suspended due to the risk of incitement of violence.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Trump, suspended from other social media websites as well, has been issuing long-form press releases and providing endorsements of Republican candidates across the country without the use of the medium. But the former president has also recently communicated in a more traditional way, through an interview with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/former-president-donald-trump-to-appear-exclusively-on-fox-news-primetime-with-maria-bartiromo\"><span>Fox News<\/span><\/a><span> host Maria Bartiromo in which he called the COVID-19 vaccine safe and recommended that others get it.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Jason Miller, an adviser to Trump, told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-to-launch-new-social-media-platform-in-next-couple-of-months-after-meetings-with-companies-report\"><span>Fox News<\/span><\/a><span> on Sunday that the former president will likely return to social media in the coming months, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-to-launch-new-social-media-platform-in-next-couple-of-months-after-meetings-with-companies-report\">on his own platform<\/a>, which he hopes will attract tens of millions of users.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI do think that we\u2019re going to see President Trump returning to social media in probably about two or three months here with his own platform,\u201d Miller told Fox News. \u201cAnd this is something that I think will be the hottest ticket in social media. It\u2019s going to completely redefine the game and everybody is going to be waiting and watching to see what exactly President Trump does. But it will be his own platform.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told The New York Times that he wasn\u2019t comfortable with the idea that former President Donald Trump was banned from Twitter back in January, at a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311019,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2991.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Sanders Uncomfortable With Trump\u2019s Twitter Ban: \u2018Tomorrow, It Could Be Somebody Else\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2991.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Sanders Uncomfortable With Trump\u2019s Twitter Ban: \u2018Tomorrow, It Could Be Somebody Else\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}