Finn McRedmond: Trump has gone from Twitter…who is next?

In the early days of the internet plenty of ink was spilled on its potential revolutionary power. It would democratise information, enable mass communication and see big corporations and governments cede power to the people. This vaunted cyber-utopia never came to be. And the recent actions of the social media giants – Twitter and Facebook specifically – have proven the internet has entrenched the power imbalances it was once fated to redress. Last Friday Twitter banned US president Donald Trump on the grounds that he encouraged the storming of the Capitol two days prior. Their ban was swiftly followed by Facebook, Amazon and Google among others. There is little doubt that Trump had a direct...