Some surprising people have come to Trump’s support after he was banned from Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Snapchat, Reddit, and Instagram.

* German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Twitter’s ban on Trump “problematic,” and said that freedom of opinion is an essential right of “elementary significance.”

* Clement Beaune, the junior minister for European Union affairs, said he was “shocked” that a private company made this kind of decision. “This should be decided by citizens, not by a CEO,” he told Bloomberg TV on Monday.

* French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire condemned the move and said that tech giants were part of a digital oligarchy that was a threat to democracy.

* Manfred Weber, the leader of the center-right European People’s Party, called for a stricter regulatory approach. “We cannot leave it to American Big Tech to decide how we can or cannot discuss online.”

* Norway’s left-wing Labor Party leader Jonas Gahr Støre said that Big Tech censorship threatens political freedom around the world.

* Australia’s acting Prime Minister, Michael McCormack, said, “There’s been a lot of people who have said and done a lot of things on Twitter previously that haven’t received that sort of condemnation or indeed censorship. I’m not one who believes in that sort of censorship.”

* Mexican President Manuel López Obrador echoed his global counterparts, calling this kind of censorship by private companies “like an inquisition to manage public opinion.”