TWITTER CHIEF: TRUMP BAN OK BUT IT SETS DANGEROUS PRECEDENT

Twitter's chief executive Jack Dorsey defended the platform's decision to suspend US President Donald Trump's account indefinitely, but also said it sets a dangerous precedent, Andrej Sokolow and Helen Corbett reported for Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa).

Twitter banned the outgoing president in the wake of the attack on the US Capitol by a pro-Trump mob last week. "I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban @realDonaldTrump from Twitter, or how we got here. After a clear warning we’d take this action, we made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter," Dorsey wrote in a Twitter thread

However, he also said he feels turning to a ban ultimately shows a failure by Twitter to promote healthy conversation.

"Having to take these actions fragment the public conversation. They divide us. They limit the potential for clarification, redemption, and learning. And sets a precedent I feel is dangerous: the power an individual or corporation has over a part of the global public conversation," Dorsey wrote.

Facebook has also banned Trump from using his accounts, citing his intent to "undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power."

Trump has complained that social media platforms are exercising censorship and suggested he may launch a competing platform.

Amazon had earlier on Wednesday defended its decision to kick the social network Parler from its cloud servers, saying the platform popular with Trump's supporters failed to delete threats of violence. Some people used Parler to spread messages promoting insurrection and to plan for last Wednesday's deadly invasion of the US Capitol.

Amazon Web Services booted social network Parler on Monday in a move that effectively removed it from the internet. The conservative-friendly platform then filed a lawsuit in a Seattle federal court that demanded Amazon keep Parler on its service.

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