Bill Gates says social media bans won’t solve divisiveness

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Bill Gates says social media bans are not the answer to solving divisiveness

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said social-media silencing such as Twitter Inc.’s lifetime ban on former President Donald Trump risk leading to even more divisiveness in the U.S.

Trump said many things questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 election “that are corrosive,” Gates said on “Fox News Sunday.” “But the idea that you end up with a lifetime ban - that, it seems like we should discuss.”

[Bloomberg]
 
Divisiveness is never a good thing. Americans are divided. Nothing good will ever come from this. Perhaps this is may turn out to become a good thing. This may be the only way to resolve the issues they are currently experiencing. America's citizens problems cannot be resolved by any government, I firmly believe it will only be resolved by the citizens themselves.
 
Social media enable divisiveness.

People fighting over something on the socials gets more retweets, likes, attention, replies than some good wholesome messages.

Banning certain people won't fix it. The communist need to fight someone. If all conservative are canceled they'll move on to their own allies.

This has all happened before.
 
Us and them thinking is normal for humans. It has been there in the US all the time. Perhaps all that has changed is social media putting a spotlight on it and a president who fanned it for political gain.
 
Us and them thinking is normal for humans. It has been there in the US all the time. Perhaps all that has changed is social media putting a spotlight on it and a president who fanned it for political gain.
Woooooosh. This is about bans.
 
Not interested in what this holeass has to say about anything....oh yes there is something, I forgot, isn't he the guy that wants earth's population decreased by a couple billion? That piece of shti is evil personified!
 
Bill Gates says social media bans are not the answer to solving divisiveness

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said social-media silencing such as Twitter Inc.’s lifetime ban on former President Donald Trump risk leading to even more divisiveness in the U.S.

Trump said many things questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 election “that are corrosive,” Gates said on “Fox News Sunday.” “But the idea that you end up with a lifetime ban - that, it seems like we should discuss.”

[Bloomberg]
What the wold needs is fewer people to use unsociable media.
 
Not interested in what this holeass has to say about anything....oh yes there is something, I forgot, isn't he the guy that wants earth's population decreased by a couple billion? That piece of shti is evil personified!
Nope. That is not what he said. lol.
 
Federalism and devolution of political power is the only proven way to solve divisiveness.
The concept works on all levels of society, right down to the family.

Progressives and their communist masters are under the belief that if you have a mother-in-law that you don't really like, the best way to deal with her is to have her move in with you and give her equal access to your kitchen.
 
He's right but that's not what the bans are for. People are being banned for hate speech and inciting violence.

Not going to argue about what you think about how that is being done but that is the intent of the bans, they are not intended to resolve socio-political divides.
 
Who elected Twitter anyway? In democracies we elect the people who make the rules on our behalf, WTF does The Twitterkop think he is?
 
What the world needs is a smidgen of intelligence.
 
Social media enable divisiveness.

People fighting over something on the socials gets more retweets, likes, attention, replies than some good wholesome messages.

Banning certain people won't fix it. The communist need to fight someone. If all conservative are canceled they'll move on to their own allies.

This has all happened before.

And people post untruths as facts. Nobody fact checks, causing k@K
 
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