{"id":554650,"date":"2021-06-06T17:20:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T21:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=554650"},"modified":"2021-06-06T17:20:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T21:20:46","slug":"facebook-vp-of-global-affairs-says-two-year-trump-ban-was-fair-transparent-and-proportionate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-vp-of-global-affairs-says-two-year-trump-ban-was-fair-transparent-and-proportionate\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook VP Of Global Affairs Says Two-Year Trump Ban Was \u2018Fair, Transparent, And Proportionate\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\">28<\/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%2Ffacebook-vp-of-global-affairs-says-two-year-trump-ban-was-fair-transparent-and-proportionate%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=554650&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\/06\/Nick-Clegg.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s Vice President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg defended the company\u2019s decision to suspend former President Donald Trump for two years.<\/p>\n<p>Clegg appeared on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday to defend Facebook after Trump blasted the social media giant in a statement and again during a speech in North Carolina on Saturday night. Clegg said that the company\u2019s decision was not made to please one side of the political aisle or the other, but to be \u201cfair, transparent and proportionate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand that making a decision like this is controversial. It\u2019s shouted out, if you like, from both sides, from those people who feel Donald Trump should be back on the platform immediately and from those who say he should be banned forever. It receives criticism from all sides,\u201d Clegg told Stephanopoulos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur job is not to take these decisions with an eye to which side of the political aisle is going to agree or disagree more with us, but just to do so in a way that is fair, transparent and proportionate,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Clegg said that the decision to suspend Trump for two years came following criticism from Facebook\u2019s oversight board about suspending Trump indefinitely from the platform over comments he made on January 6 about the Capitol riot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook was wrong to do [suspend Trump] in an indefinite way, an open-ended way, and that we needed to come up with clearer due process, clearer standards, clearer penalties, which we\u2019ve now done,\u201d Clegg said. \u201cWe\u2019ve now set out what penalties would apply to what I hope will remain these very rare cases where a public individual uses our apps and services to say things in a way which foments or, in his case, praises rioters who were involved in violence ongoing at that very time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/insult-to-the-record-setting-75m-people-trump-slams-facebook-for-censoring-and-silencing-after-two-year-suspension\">responded<\/a> to the suspension in a Friday statement slamming the social media company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook\u2019s ruling is an insult to the record-setting 75M people, plus many others,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThey shouldn\u2019t be allowed to get away with this censoring and silencing, and ultimately, we will win. Our Country can\u2019t take this abuse anymore!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s \u201cOversight Board\u201d ruled in May that the company\u2019s decision to suspend Trump in January was reasonable, but said the company should have more clearly defined the penalty rather than kicking Trump off the platform for an undetermined amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/facebooks-oversight-board-slams-big-tech-giant-for-avoiding-its-responsibilities-despite-refusing-to-overturn-trump-ban\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported at the time:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17.70705244123\">\n<p><em>\u201cThe Board has upheld Facebook\u2019s decision on January 7, 2021, to restrict then-President Donald Trump\u2019s access to posting content on his Facebook page and Instagram account,\u201d a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oversightboard.com\/news\/226612455899839-oversight-board-upholds-former-president-trump-s-suspension-finds-facebook-failed-to-impose-proper-penalty\/\">statement<\/a>\u00a0read.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In addition, the Oversight Board noted that they felt it \u201cwas not appropriate for Facebook to impose the indeterminate and standardless penalty of indefinite suspension\u201d given that \u201cFacebook\u2019s normal penalties include removing the violating content, imposing a time-bound period of suspension, or permanently disabling the page and account.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-facebook-gives-trump-two-year-suspension-will-extend-if-experts-decide-a-serious-risk-to-public-safety-exists\">Facebook Gives Trump Two Year Suspension, Will Extend If \u2018Experts\u2019 Decide A \u2018Serious Risk To Public Safety\u2019 Exists<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>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 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook\u2019s Vice President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg defended the company\u2019s decision to suspend former President Donald Trump for two years.Clegg appeared on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d with George Stephanopoulos on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279387,"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\/06\/Nick-Clegg.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Facebook VP Of Global Affairs Says Two-Year Trump Ban Was \u2018Fair, Transparent, And Proportionate\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Nick-Clegg.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Facebook VP Of Global Affairs Says Two-Year Trump Ban Was \u2018Fair, Transparent, And Proportionate\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554650","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=554650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}