Facebook announced today that Trump was banned from Facebook for two years from the January 6th insurrection to overturn the results of the election in his favor.  He will be considered for reinstatement at that time if the danger for violence has subsided.  That’s bullshit.  Everyday since January 6 Trump has publicly made statements perpetuating The Big Lie, amplifying the lies from his surrogates and the entire Republican Party.  The appropriate decision would have been to ban him for life from the platform because he’ll never change.  Alternatively, I would be OK with the two years AFTER he repudiates his lie and stops telling it as well as all of his sycophants stop repeating the lie.  Two years from THAT action would be appropriate.

I’m not holding my breath, though.

Mike Lindell, the founder of My Pillow, which sells ripped up foam in a bag, has been banned from Vimeo for posting content from another banned user, Trump.  Being de-platformed from other social media and cut off from major online sales outlets, Lindell is presiding over the Titanic of pillow companies.  His biggest problem is that he enthusiastically embraced the Big Lie, and is now paying the price, having to defend against a $1 billion plus lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems for perpetuating Trump’s lie, along with facing plummeting sales.

He’ll never learn, though, and will be just more cannon fodder for Trump’s reputational funeral pyre of formerly respected people who made the wrong choice.

Facebook’s oversight board just announced it is upholding Facebook’s ban of Trump from the platform, but there is a Big But. The Big But is that it is giving Facebook 6 months to determine Trump’s actual punishment; that is, the board said that they can’t just indefinitely ban him, that Facebook must treat him like other users with definite punishment communicated to him.  That seems pretty easy, since he egregiously violated numerous policies; incite to violence by itself is reason to permanently ban him. Zuckerberg now just need to grow a spine and do it.