![]() ![]() Congress still has not censured Trump for his role in the storming of the Capitol. The speed of these technology companies’ reactions stands in stark contrast to the feeble response from the United States’ governing institutions. Major financial service apps, such as PayPal and Stripe, stopped processing payments for the Trump campaign and for accounts that had funded travel expenses to Washington, D.C., for Trump’s supporters. Amazon, Apple, and Google effectively banished Parler, an alternative to Twitter that Trump’s supporters had used to encourage and coordinate the attack, by blocking its access to Web-hosting services and app stores. Facebook and Twitter suspended the accounts of President Donald Trump for posts praising the rioters. But they weren’t the ones you might expect. Capitol on January 6, some of the United States’ most powerful institutions sprang into action to punish the leaders of the failed insurrection.
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