President Donald Trump has been removed from Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Snapchat, Twitch and Reddit.
Stripe suspended payment processing for Trump’s campaign, Shopify removed stores affiliated with Trump merchandise, and even Trump’s email providers suspended his service. Parler, a social networking app promising refuge for Trump supporters, was removed by both Apple and Google from their app stores before Amazon Web Services pulled it offline altogether. Facebook banned the Trumpist rallying cry, “Stop the Steal.”
In a world in which most communication takes place on platforms like these, that’s a lot of censorship, justified or not. Whether it’s effective is another matter.