# Are social media's recent bannings a freedom of expression issue?

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**Created:** [January 12, 2021, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-social-medias-recent-bannings-a-freedom-of-expression-issue/930330 "2021-01-12T14:56:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-social-medias-recent-bannings-a-freedom-of-expression-issue/930330/552 "2021-02-09T14:57:47Z")

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> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> This doesn’t conflict with what I said. This isn’t a hypothetical – “his own merits” include years and years of history up to the present. By those “merits”, his reputation should be ruined. Do you agree or disagree? Do you think efforts to convince everyone as to his misdeeds (i.e. trying to ensure his reputation is seen as ruined) and hold him accountable (convict him due to “high crimes and misdemeanors”, which is a category determined by Senators and not otherwise defined) are “cruelty”?

If his reputation is ruined on its merits then it’s already ruined. Everyone already knows what he’s done, he was president of the goddamn United States. What you are looking for is vengeance.

And this is really not about Trump. He doesn’t care and will be okay whatever, but that is not true of all the ordinary people who are caught up in cancel culture.

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