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“Silencing people, not to mention the President of the U.S., is what happens in China not our country,” Haley wrote in a tweet.

Twitter declared earlier in the day that it was permanently banning Trump’s account, which had been running since before he got elected in 2016. The company explained that his recent tweets were "encouraging violence."

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Trump in response blamed Twitter of “banning free speech” and coordinating “with the Democrats and the Radical Left in removing my account from their platform, to silence me—and YOU, the 75,000,000 great patriots who voted for me.”

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Trump announced his team has been consulting with competitors to Twitter and is starting to build their own platform in the near future.

Facebook likewise banned Trump, at least for the rest of his term.

Haley, who worked as an ambassador to the United Nations under Trump after governing South Carolina and is said to be considering a 2024 presidential bid, was followed by others in responding firmly to the bans.

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Jason Miller, a Trump campaign adviser, announced large technology firms want to “cancel” Trump followers. “If you don’t think they’re coming for you next, you’re wrong,” he wrote on Twitter.

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Banning The President of the U.S. “is the biggest mistake” Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s CEO, “and the fascists of Silicon Valley have ever made,” added Sebastian Gorka, a former Trump aide.

Twitter similarly banned many others, among them lawyer Sidney Powell and Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

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Some Twitter users willingly abandoned the platform after the wave of bans, such as radio hosts Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh. They inspired people to move to Parler, which has stronger free speech protections than Twitter.

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Limbaugh was joined by more than 88 million people on Twitter.

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The radio host’s Facebook account is still up and running. Facebook banned Trump through at least Jan. 20.

Parler was removed from the Google Play store on Friday by the tech giant and Apple threatened to remove it as well unless the company introduced stronger moderation practices.

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Some of the Democrat legislators applauded Twitter’s ban. “While long overdue, I commend twitter for moving to ban Donald Trump from the platform permanently. Tech companies must take responsibility for hate speech and misinformation flourishing on their watch. This is an important step toward accountability,” Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) wrote in a tweet.

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Yet some lawmakers announced they disagreed with the move.

“Twitter may ban me for this but I willingly accept that fate: Your decision to permanently ban President Trump is a serious mistake. The Ayatollah can tweet, but Trump can’t. Says a lot about the people who run Twitter,” Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) wrote.