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It’s Twitter’s turn to feel the bern.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is not a fan of Donald Trump, but that doesn’t mean he thinks the former president should have been banned from the social media platform after the deadly Capitol siege.

The latest tweets from @BernieSanders. Also let’s be real: if any company is the “Bernie Sanders of employers” it would be that one-woman shop that made the senator’s recycled mittens made famous at the inauguration. By providing my phone number, I consent to receive periodic text message alerts from Bernie Sanders and his affiliated campaigns, including Friends of Bernie Sanders. Friends of Bernie Sanders will never charge for these updates, but carrier message & data rates may apply. Text STOP to 67760 to stop receiving messages.

“Look, you have a former president in Trump, who was a racist, a sexist, a xenophobe, a pathological liar, an authoritarian, somebody who doesn’t believe in the rule of law. This is a bad-news guy,” Sanders said on the New York Times podcast 'The Ezra Klein Show' when asked if there's 'truth to the critique that liberals have become too censorious and too willing to use their cultural and corporate and political power to censor or suppress ideas and products that offend them.'

“But if you’re asking me, do I feel particularly comfortable that the then-president of the United States could not express his views on Twitter?,” Sanders, an indepe continued. “I don’t feel comfortable about that.”

Further, he said. “I don't like giving that much power to a handful of high tech people.”

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Not that Sanders thinks hate speech and conspiracy theories should be allowed to spread. And he does not want the internet used “for authoritarian purposes and an insurrection.”

Twitter suspended Trump after the Jan. 6 insurrection, citing the risk of incitement to violence.

Even if Trump runs for president and wins in 2024, he will not be allowed to rejoin Twitter, the company's chief financial officer Ned Segal said last month.

Twitter was Trump's favorite megaphone to promote his agenda and attack critics.

“How do you balance that?” Sanders said. “I don’t know, but it is an issue that we have got to be thinking about. Because yesterday it was Donald Trump who was banned, and tomorrow, it could be somebody else who has a very different point of view.”

Sanders is not alone in his discomfort. The leaders of the nation’s largest social media companies, including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, have expressed unease with a handful of corporations having so much control over the nation’s online conversation.

Months after the former president was suspended from all major social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Google’s YouTube, YouTube said it would lift Trump's ban when the 'risk of incitement to violence' abates. Facebook has left the decision in the hands of an advisory board. Trump has appealed his ban from Facebook and Instagram.

The handling of Trump’s social media presence prompted an outcry from conservatives, who’ve accused tech companies of anti-conservative bias and censorship. Most Americans, but not most Republicans, supported Twitter’s permanent suspension of President Donald Trump after the deadly U.S. Capitol siege, according to a January survey from The Harris Poll.

On Sunday, Trump spokesman Jason Miller said the former president would return to social media with his own social network.

'I do think that we're going to see President Trump returning to social media, probably in about two or three months here, with his own platform,' Miller told Fox News on Sunday.

'This is something that I think will be the hottest ticket in social media. It's going to completely redefine the game. And everybody is going to be waiting and watching to see what President Trump does, but it will be his own platform,' Trump's longtime adviser said.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Bernie Sanders against Donald Trump Twitter ban: 'Tomorrow it could be somebody else'

Twitter, and the internet itself, is a veritable buffet of bad takes. But there’s a difference between your run of the mill internet fails and this delusional screed written by Amazon executive Dave Clark. Clark, the CEO of Amazon’s worldwide consumer unit, tweeted a response to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ visit to Birmingham, Alabama to support Amazon workers fighting to unionize their warehouse.

“I welcome @SenSanders to Birmingham and appreciate his push for a progressive workplace,” Clark tweeted. “I often say we are the Bernie Sanders of employers, but that’s not quite right because we actually deliver a progressive workplace. So if you want to hear about $15 an hour and health care, Senator Sanders will be speaking downtown, But if you would like to make at least $15 an hour and have good health care, Amazon is hiring.”

1/3 I welcome @SenSanders to Birmingham and appreciate his push for a progressive workplace. I often say we are the Bernie Sanders of employers, but that’s not quite right because we actually deliver a progressive workplace https://t.co/Fq8D6vyuh9

— Dave Clark (@davehclark) March 24, 2021

Mac os catalina dmg download. 3/3 So if you want to hear about $15 an hour and health care, Senator Sanders will be speaking downtown. But if you would like to make at least $15 an hour and have good health care, Amazon is hiring.

— Dave Clark (@davehclark) March 24, 2021

Big claims for a company that solicited donations to fund their workers’ sick leave. Or saw thousands of employees worldwide going on strike over poor working conditions. Find mysql version mac. Or the company’s exploitative use of temp workers during the holidays to avoid giving them benefits. Or the hundreds of OSHA investigations into unsafe working conditions in their warehouses. Or repeated allegations of racism and bias despite touting their “diversity.” Or practices so heinous they’ve earned their own segment on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:

Also let’s be real: if any company is the “Bernie Sanders of employers” it would be that one-woman shop that made the senator’s recycled mittens made famous at the inauguration.

Twitter quickly rushed to correct Clark, by reminding him of Amazon’s myriad abuses:

This you 👀 https://t.co/b3L0ZIK7vOpic.twitter.com/GTz1zxNQbs

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— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) March 24, 2021

Sounds great man pic.twitter.com/2xSHj5LTGe

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) March 24, 2021

— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) March 24, 2021

Yes, tell us more, Dave pic.twitter.com/MI53zKgBdO

— Judith Benezra (@JudithBenezra) March 24, 2021

— Forcing workers to urinate in bottles

— Firing pregnant women for taking too many bathroom breaks

— Hiring analysts to monitor ‘labor organizing threats’

— Making employees attend mandatory anti-union meetings

This is what a senior VP of Amazon calls a “progressive workplace.” https://t.co/l1BTe2SLqO

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) March 24, 2021

yeah okay buddy!!!!!! https://t.co/MFFU6UJYSqpic.twitter.com/vThK5PgK0X

— manny (@mannyfidel) March 24, 2021

Wisconsin Rep. Mark Pocan called out Clark’s tweets, writing “Paying workers $15/hr doesn’t make you a “progressive workplace” when you union-bust & make workers urinate in water bottles.” The Amazon News Twitter account (aka Dave Clark frantically switching Twitter accounts) responded,

1/2 You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? If that were true, nobody would work for us. The truth is that we have over a million incredible employees around the world who are proud of what they do, and have great wages and health care from day one.

— Amazon News (@amazonnews) March 25, 2021

2/2 We hope you can enact policies that get other employers to offer what we already do.

— Amazon News (@amazonnews) March 25, 2021

A trillion dollar company trolling an elected politician? Must be Thursday. Stuart Appelbaum, the president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) tweeted, “How arrogant and tone deaf can Amazon be? Do they really believe that the wage they pay – which is below what workers in nearby unionized warehouses receive and below Alabama’s median wage- gives them the right to mistreat and dehumanize their employees?”

Instead of taking the L and deleting his account, Clark fired back at Sanders with this tweet:

All we want to know is why the Sen is one of the most powerful pols in VT for 30+ yrs and their min wage is STILL only $11.75.AMZN’s min wage is $15 + great health care from Day 1.The Sen should save his finger wagging lecture until after he actually delivers in his own backyard. https://t.co/dRo2Tv1xDQ

— Dave Clark (@davehclark) March 25, 2021

Hackintosh boot stick. Because what better way to win progressives to your side then by going after Bernie Sanders? Also, what kind of megalomaniac demands praise for doing a subpar job of protecting its own workers? I guess it’s the same type of guy who was nicknamed “the Sniper” by “lurking in the shadows of Amazon warehouses and scoping out slackers he could fire.”

At least have the nerve to be ruthless and hated! Plenty of people make plenty of money that way.

— Amanda Mull (@amandamull) March 25, 2021

If you believe that Amazon truly has it workers best interests at heart, consider who and what you’re defending.

new amazon logo just dropped pic.twitter.com/ptsa6nyeYD

— Bes D. Socialist (@besf0rt) March 25, 2021

(via Vice, featured image: Amazon)

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