[l9k]

I think you underestimate the power of American politics and its influence over other countries.

Many politicians are publicly supporting Trump despite sharing none of his values and none of his political stances just because he is branded as a successful right-wing politician. Most people don't know how skewed the political window is in the US anyway.

Even moderate right-wing politician from a European perspective want to be associated with him because he represents the right.

Because of that, news reporters in Europe tend to be gentle with Trump and the Republican party, glossing over their most egregious acts, to not appear biased, despite the small number of people actually supporting the same policies locally. And they still need to report on the USA because of their importance in the world.

Also at play, the incomprehension in translating American problems to other countries'. In other events, the BLM movements was imported to other countries with little knowledge of the US systemic problems and used/criticized in different ways.

This is how American politics can drag the political discussion over the world and impact the political spectrum everywhere.

[BlueTemplar]

On the other hand, how many of the left-leaning politicians in the USA have criticized Twitter/Facebook banning Trump or Apple/Google/AWS banning Parler ?

Here's an example from Europe :

https://www.worldstockmarket.net/twitter-when-francois-ruffi...

[nemothekid]

Any European criticizing AWS for banning Parler is only paying lip service; Parler couldn’t exist as European company as Europe has far stricter hate speech laws.

In any case far left leaning activists have always expressed that the mega caps have too much power; but they were called communists until it started affected people on the right.

[PoignardAzur]

He reacted to similar criticisms: https://twitter.com/Francois_Ruffin/status/13485575743843164...

> "Freedom of speech isn't without limits", I know, but it falls to the people, the tribunals and the officials to decide those limits. Not private companies.

He's not saying these are good people, he's saying the arbitrary nature of these decisions, and the fact that they're being made by unaccountable corporations, is dangerous.

[BlueTemplar]

AFAIK he's not criticizing the issue with Parler, as you would have seen if you actually had read my link. I have just widened the net in the hope of catching some dissidents to the "party line".

[nemothekid]

I did read link, to ensure he was western European, rather than eastern. My assertion remains the same - under French or German laws Trump would have been booted, and with clear precedent.