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Editor's Note: Camilo Egaña is the host of the primetime talk show, Camilo, which airs Monday through Friday at 9:00 pm Atlanta time on CNN en Español. The opinions expressed here are his.
(CNN Spanish) - Life has everything. That someone like Donald Trump, who pretends to be the incarnation of the invincible male, looks more and more like the Erinias, is -at least- comical.
In Greek mythology, the Erinias were the goddesses of revenge. In Roman mythology they are known as the Furies. But in both cases, they are female creatures.
In a fury, because sticking to the facts, Twitter decided to warn people that a series of messages from the President offer "potentially misleading" information, His Majesty Donald has signed a decree to try to control social media companies. And since Trump understands, above all, the language of money, he has ordered to limit his government's advertising spending on those companies.
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Trump invokes freedom of expression. He argues that the big tech companies are against him and that they censor conservative discourse.
But it has never put the cry in the sky for the power that such companies have over citizenship based on the information that - sometimes - the citizens themselves offer as candid lambs; Nor has he criticized the disinformation and defamation, which like birds of bad omen, perch all the time on social networks. Nor has he admitted that he himself, with his frenzied and hysterical retweets, is marinating the breeding ground of denigration and lies.
Donald, Erinia, Trump, the Fury of the White House, have just taken a step in a control path that, for some, could place their administration at the same level as the Chinese and Cuban communist government, which censor social networks.
Will it reach the levels of Maduro and Putin, or other autocrats?
The president's decree against social media companies may remain in borage waters: neither fu nor fa. Experts say it is potentially unconstitutional. But Trump knows that his acolytes need that little joy to continue worshiping him.
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That decree is not a true weapon of political intimidation in the United States. But I don't know if the president can understand his country. A country where there are violent protests over the death of a black man after a white policeman put his knee on his neck. The same country where 100,000 people have already lost their lives to a horrible pandemic to which - from the White House - the same attention is not devoted to a phrase of data verification.
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