Background

On January 6 2021, a group of

domestic terrorists
stormed the United States Capitol after incitement by Donald Trump at an earlier rally. The riots disrupted the special joint session of Congress to count the Electoral College votes which are required to certify the results of the 2020 federal election.

Donald Trump's continued lies about electoral and voter fraud, and attempts at preventing the peaceful transition of power have been frowned upon by leaders all around the world. However, after the unprecedented riots and storming of the US Capitol, almost every major world leader has condemned Trump's unethical and potentially illegal actions. This includes leaders of Canada, New Zealand, the UK, France, India, Australia, Scotland and many others.

Due to these unprecedented events that have proven President Donald Trump is no longer capable of discharging his powers and duties of his office, there have been calls to remove him from office before his term officially ends.

List of bans

Twitter

Source: CNN
Date anounced: Jan 7th, 2021 (the first)
Length of time: minimum of 12 hours, at least until specified tweets are removed. Account is now restored. Account is now permanently banned, see upate below.
Description: In a statement, Twitter said "We have required the removal of three @realDonaldTrump Tweets that were posted earlier today for repeated and severe violations of our Civic Integrity Policy," and "This means that the account of @realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours following the removal of these Tweets. If the Tweets are not removed, the account will remain locked." They also added that "future violations... will result in permanent suspension of the @realDonaldTrump account."

Facebook

Source: The Washington Post
Date anounced: Jan 7th, 2021
Length of time: indefinitely - at least until the peaceful transition of power is complete
Description: “We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great,” said Zuckerberg. “Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete.”

Instagram

Source: TechCrunch
Date anounced: Jan 7th, 2021
Length of time: indefinitely - at least until the peaceful transition of power is complete
Description: Similar to Facebook above, the company said “We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great,” and “Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete.”

Source: The Verge
Date anounced: Jan 7th, 2021
Length of time: indefinitely
Description: “In light of yesterday’s shocking attack on the Capitol, we have disabled President Trump’s Twitch channel,” Twitch said in a statement. “Given the current extraordinary circumstances and the President’s incendiary rhetoric, we believe this is a necessary step to protect our community and prevent Twitch from being used to incite further violence.” They will "reassess" Trump's account after he leaves office.

Snapchat

Source: The Hill
Date anounced: Jan 7th, 2021
Length of time: indefinitely
Description: Snapchat has suspended Donald Trump's snapchat account after the storming of the Capitol. While talking to The Hill, Snapchat said "the company is concerned about the rhetoric coming from Trump and the attacks on Democratic institutions."

Source: The Wall Street Journal
Date anounced: Jan 8th, 2021
Length of time: indefinitely
Description: Shopify released a statement saying that “Shopify does not tolerate actions that incite violence,” and that actions by the president “violate our Acceptable Use Policy, which prohibits promotion or support of organizations, platforms or people that threaten or condone violence. As a result, we have terminated stores affiliated with President Trump.” In total, Shopify removed two onlie stores that sold MAGA merchandise that used to be available at TrumpStore.com and Shop.DonaldJTrump.com.

Source: Axios
Date anounced: Jan 8th, 2021
Length of time: indefinitely
Description: Reddit banned the /r/donaldtrump subreddit on their platform. When asked by Axios, Reddit said that their "site-wide policies prohibit content that promotes hate, or encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence against groups of people or individuals ... We have taken action to ban the community r/donaldtrump given repeated policy violations in recent days regarding the violence at the U.S. Capitol.”

Twitter

Source: Twitter
Date anounced: Jan 8th, 2021
Length of time: permanently
Description: In a second statement, Twitter said "After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence."
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