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Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates told CNBC that social media companies should eventually take their muzzles off former President Donald Trump, despite his corrosive election fraud conspiracy theories.
I think at some point he probably will be allowed back on and probably should be allowed back on, the Microsoft co-founder said in an interview that aired Thursday morning.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/18/trump-probably-should-be-allowed-back-on-social-media-bill-gates-says.html
SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Dan
(3,579 posts)To Microsoft (with bugs).
VickiSmith
(32 posts)0rganism
(23,970 posts)i'm hoping that point will be posthumous
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)dalton99a
(81,570 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,373 posts)joshcryer
(62,276 posts)That's likely what will happen.
Not saying I agree with it but permanently deleting someones presence from a platform isn't exactly necessary. There's a lot of people in the gamer/streamer community who have been banned and allowed back on the platforms.
Mr.Bill
(24,319 posts)EndlessWire
(6,565 posts)The guy tried to take our government out. NOOOOO!!! Not now, not EVER!! I'd like his sorry, pasty ass kicked out of the country!
Bill, what is wrong with you!? He contributes NOTHING to social media except hate! He should be in jail right now! He got people KILLED. I expect more from you, Bill, than sympathy for the likes of tRump!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)If you're missing the pearls of wisdom Donald sharts out, maybe you could just send your private e-mail address to him? The rest of us are rather enjoying the silence.
LiberalFighter
(51,084 posts)FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)triron
(22,020 posts)Demsrule86
(68,667 posts)mobeau69
(11,156 posts)targetpractice
(4,919 posts)"Rosebud"
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Vinca
(50,303 posts)can suck it up and carry on with whatever disruption he wants to cause the Biden administration.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Trump broke the rules all the time.
tblue37
(65,488 posts)triron
(22,020 posts)mountain grammy
(26,648 posts)but Fuck No!! Shut up Bill.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Although I would prefer trump create his own website or platform than contaminate FB, Twitter, and others used by the majority of people.
I honestly believe the majority of people -- even a lot of the white wing rubes who still support trump -- know he is a POS, and his racist hateful views are crud.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)Lunabell
(6,105 posts)then trump shouldn't get back on after promoting a violent insurrection.
You stupid fool, just NO. He incited violence and insurrection & committed other crimes via twitter and elsewhere, he abused numerous individuals, the nation and the world for over 4 years- it should be a permanent ban as it should be for all social media platforms.
tanyev
(42,613 posts)Keeping him off social media is a trivial consequence for everything hes done.
Ritabert
(669 posts)He has learned nothing and will resume his attempt to overthrow the government. Let him fund his own platform. Gates has enough money that he is immune from whatever crap Trump pulls. The rest of us are not.
JuJuYoshida
(2,216 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Not in a million years
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)andym
(5,445 posts)So does that mean Trump will be posting there? Of course Gates is no longer in charge...
Firestorm49
(4,037 posts)helps validate (elevate) that opinion. Thus the old expression by one Robert Zimmerman, Money doesnt talk, it screams.