“But if you’re asking me, am I particularly comfortable with the fact that the president, the then president of the United States, can’t express his views on Twitter? I’m not comfortable with that,” continued Sanders.
Twitter’s chief financial officer also told CNBC that Trump will not be allowed to return to Twitter, even if he runs again for the job and wins.
Sanders, who previously labeled Trump “racist”, said the former president was “directly responsible” for the “chaos” on January 6 and argued that Trump “would go down in history as the worst and most dangerous president in history”.
During his interview on the Times podcast, Sanders argued that social media platforms should not be used to spread hate speech and conspiracy theories, and that the internet should not be used for “authoritarian purposes and insurrection”.
Sanders said he does not know how to strike a balance, “but it is an issue we have to be thinking about.”
He also noted that while Trump was banned, “tomorrow may be someone else with a very different point of view”.
“So I don’t like to give so much power to a handful of high-tech people. But the devil is obviously in the details and it’s something that we have to think about a lot and a lot of, and that’s how you preserve first Change rights without moving this country to a great lie mentality and conspiracy theories, “he said.