As the world recovers from the horrendous scenes which played out on Capitol Hill, the anger against Trump and his family is growing. The backlash has started and as the lawmakers in Washington gear up with their impeachment articles, people and organizations once affiliated with Trump & Co. are distancing themselves from the family quickly.
The fallout effects of the verbal nuclear bomb deployed by the madman has been significant and every measure is being taken to ensure Trump never commands attention through the use and abuse of prominent social platforms in the near future. At best, he may be regaled to using non-influential boards such as Gab or other smaller platforms which have no influence over the general public.
Parler, a sounding board for extremists and die-hard republicans has been advised by Amazon that it would be shutting off its access to its services given the content published on the platform. In similar fashion, Parler was given 24 hours by Apple to come up with a genuine strategy to address the graphic and extremist content. Parler responded with a weak and ineffective option in the hopes it would placate Apple - it did not and the Parler app was banned from the App Store. Google was less diplomatic and simply remove the app from the premier Google Play Store immediately.
It is apparent that the digital community is responding to the attacks against America's democracy and the key players, i.e. the owners of Twitter, Facebook and Amazon, are taking a very hardline with the recent events and the message is clear: Trump needs to be silenced. Permanently. Or at least muffled to the maximum degree possible. Noting the fact that wiping Trump's account from Twitter cost 80 million followers and probably a number of users leaving Twitter permanently for smaller, less regulated platforms, the decision to sanction Trump in the digital world was not taken lightly.
In the coming days leading up to the inauguration of Jo Biden, Trump's followers have gone all out on the smaller extremist platforms with threats to bring a siege into Washington along with all the weaponry they can muster to plans to physically harm Pence and other key people in power. These threats are not being taken lightly by the FBI or other lawmakers and measures are being implemented to ensure nothing happens on the day Joe Biden is sworn in as president. Arrests have been made to militia group leaders such as Proud Boys and further arrests are expected in the coming days as law enforcement authorities move quickly to quell any trouble.
Another area of control that will come into play in the coming days is the impeachment of Trump. Having given Mike Pence 24 hours to act on a request by the lawmakers to remove Trump from office, the next step will be to impeach Trump to ensure he is unable to stand in the 2024 elections. The impeachment also seeks to strip him off a number of perks given to ex-presidents. Given the damage done by this person, it is not an extreme action, given the damage and ruin brought by Trump on so many hard-working Americans.
“Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers. Or you can grow weeds.” - Anonymous
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