Emergency measures, created under the stress of pressing events, rarely lead to ideal policies. Donald Trump’s increasingly erratic behavior since losing the presidential election, starting with a barrage of lies about election theft and culminating last Wednesday with the incitement of a mob that attacked Congress, has led to a massive shift among social media giants that had previously tolerated—and directly profited from—the surge in traffic generated by the president’s racist and threatening rhetoric.
Trump and his campaign are currently banned from posting on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, and Twitch. On Tuesday night, YouTube became the latest social media platform to freeze out Trump.
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