I've not, like, been silenced, like, capital S, but, like, it's at Twitter's discretion

whether or not I'm allowed, like, to, like, play by their rules.

Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher.

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So Donald Trump, still banned from Facebook.

I know.

Sorry, what a horrible way to start up.

All of our listeners just turned off their episode.

Honestly, I just tuned out of my own brain.

It is big news in the internet world.

Facebook has upheld a decision to keep Trump banned from the platform.

The first good thing Facebook has perhaps done ever in their entire life.

What's wild is that it's not even technically their final decision.

Trump might be back on Facebook in six months.

Trump's ban from mainstream social platforms like Facebook, and he's also banned from Twitter.

Frankly, I feel like this poses a lot more questions than it provides answers, mostly about who does and does not get punished by platforms for behavior that goes against terms of service, which terms of service are just the long, fine print that most of us avoid reading when we join an app or a platform.

And you just like scroll to the end and go, yes, I agree. You want my firstborn child and like seven locks of my hair? Great. Take them.

I have quite literally never read a terms of service, which perhaps I should. They could put

anything in there. Like I would have been, I would have signed away the rights to my kidneys just

to not have to read the fine print. But what's kind of interesting, I'll say, about Trump being banned

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