{"id":421,"date":"2021-01-09T19:51:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T19:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/?p=421"},"modified":"2021-01-10T01:57:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T01:57:43","slug":"donald-trump-has-finally-earned-a-permaban-from-twitter-and-reddit-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has finally earned a permaban from Twitter, and Reddit, and&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After the calamitous events of this week, the tech industry that has provided reach for years for the hateful garbage spewed by much of the country has finally realized that enough is enough, and in a very after the fact manner has finally begun stripping away platforms from the mental midgets who have been exploiting the leniency of these corporations for their own corrosive ends. Parler has also been evicted from major app stores, Gab is likely to follow, and further companies are finally closing the barn doors. The horses have long since left the state, never mind the stable, but perhaps this is finally the start of a rethink. Unlikely, but perhaps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1733975\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1733975<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~3\/y_OOy8DB0Y4\/\">http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~3\/y_OOy8DB0Y4\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the calamitous events of this week, the tech industry that has provided reach for years for the hateful garbage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[22,16],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ErE4HxJUcAc6bvJ.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lA9R-6N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21,"url":"https:\/\/gdgtfix.com\/?p=21","url_meta":{"origin":421,"position":0},"title":"The Lumia Icon &#8211; Too Late, Too Late","date":"February 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0Lumia Icon, is, by all accounts, a wonderful phone. 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