Facebook announced this Friday that it is banning former US President Donald Trump for two years (2017-2021), after his advisory council asked the company last month to review the indefinite ban against the former president.

The company announced in a statement that it is suspending Trump's accounts for two years from January 7.

Trump's accounts on Facebook and Instagram (owned by the company) have remained closed since the assault on the Capitol on January 6 by thousands of supporters of the former president, some of them armed, and which resulted in five deaths.

The goal is to discourage you

Trump described this Friday the veto announced against him as “censorship”, “abuse” and “insulting the record 75 million people, in addition to many others, who voted” for him and the Republican Party in the last presidential elections, in the won by Democratic candidate Joe Biden.

“They must not be allowed to get away with this censorship and this attempt to silence. In the end, we will win,” the former president wrote minutes after the technology giant's decision was made known.

“This penalty only applies to our services. Trump is and will continue to be free to express himself publicly through other means. Our approach reflects the way we try to balance the values of freedom of expression and security in our services for all users,” the company explained..

Trump's accounts on Facebook and Instagram (owned by the company) have remained closed since the assault on the Capitol on January 6 by thousands of supporters of the former president, some of them armed, and which resulted in five deaths..

Facebook justified the two-year suspension to allow “time” to deter Trump and others from committing “such serious violations in the future,” and to be commensurate with the severity of such abuses.