Ben Stiller on Big Tech Banning Trump: 'Divisive Rhetoric' Has 'Real-Life Consequences'

Actor Ben Stiller said President Donald Trump’s “divisive rhetoric” has “real-life consequences,” echoing a years-long narrative pushed by Democrats and the broader left accusing the president of inciting political violence.

Stiller’s remarks came in a recent podcast interview with Michael Cohen, a former personal attorney of Trump’s. The Tropic Thunder and Zoolander star and Cohen discussed Twitter’s censorship of President Trump and the social media platform’s purging the president.

“I wonder, in terms of just our everyday lives how much this is really changing our actual lives,” Stiller said. “And I think the people who have the ability to actually change our real life experience with Twitter are people like Trump, who can say something and then that will motivate people to do things, and that, to me, is the scary thing.”

Last week, Facebook and Twitter permanently suspended President Donald Trump’s accounts. Instagram, and Twitch have indefinitely banned the president’s access on those platforms, as has Snapchat. The president’s personal Youtube page has been temporally suspended. This week, Stripe, the multi-billion dollar online payment processing service, severed ties with President Trump’s campaign and shut down the ... (Read more)

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