Adam Schiff on FB’s Trump Ban: ‘If We Are Fortunate Hopefully It Is a Permanent Ban’

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SCHIFF: "The First Amendment protects Donald Trump and every American from the government regulating speech. It doesn't say that private companies need to use their platforms to air patent falsehoods that endanger the country, that incite insurrection. So no, I think Facebook is trying to have a consistent policy — at least its oversight board is trying to make sure that it is consistent in how it treats people. The President here is continuing to go out and push the big lie about the election, continuing, I think, to endanger our democracy by doing that. So he continues to make the case that he would violate the policies if they readmitted him. And I think frankly, pathologically he is incapable of changing. So this is a temporary ban. It will likely be, if we are fortunate, a permanent ban, because the president will not stop the lies about the last election or lies about the next one. He will incite people if that's what's necessary to suit his narrow personal interests. And that should violate any good corporate citizen's policies."