Hey, Twitter, Alex Jones and Donald Trump are a package deal. Either they're both out or they're both in. At best, Alex Jones’ suspension from Twitter might curb his online hysterics. At worst, it may have just made him a martyr for those who support him.

Amy Russo | Opinion contributor

It’s a tough time to be the CEO of Twitter.

Banning the notorious Alex Jones, whose conspiracy-mongering, hate-filled account has spouted lies and thinly veiled threats, might seem like a no-brainer to some, but Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is having a tough time sorting it all out.

In a "Reliable Sources" interview with CNN’s Brian Stelter, the social media mogul has admitted that while he has heard calls for further monitoring of his platform, he simply doesn’t have the resources.

To make matters worse, he's not even sure his temporary suspension of Jones, expected to lift Tuesday, will do much to change the behavior of the Infowars leader — who critics say deserves a lot more than a slap on the wrist for his promotion of lies and his targeted harassment of shooting survivors, Muslims, transgender people and even Stelter himself. A CNN investigation recognized each of those instances as violations of Twitter’s user guidelines, yet the company was reluctant to even put Jones in his virtual timeout.

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But if we hold bad actors like Jones to those standards, why aren’t we doing so with our president?

When do we ban Trump from Twitter?

President Donald Trump has leveraged the platform’s power to target dissenters, undercut the credibility of journalists, and launch disinformation campaigns from the birther movement to the size of his presidential inauguration crowd.

Last year, Trump sparked outrage with an edited video appearing to show him clobbering an individual meant to represent CNN in a violent outburst. Last month, he delivered an unhinged all caps threat to Iran, cautioning that it would suffer for its war of words. And last week, he called Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., a “loser” and former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman a “dog.” For Trump, Twitter is nothing more than his personal boxing ring.

And like Jones, he almost suffered the consequences. In July, Fox News’ Charles Gasparino revealed that Twitter once considered punishing Trump for his insults of Megyn Kelly about the time of the 2016 election, but then the social media platform backed down.

The reality is that if Twitter were to truly implement its policies to their fullest extent, Jones would be the tip of the iceberg.

We must then ask ourselves this: Why do we need to ban Jones to know that he’s a hateful, divisive figure marketing deception? We know shots rang out in Parkland, Florida. We saw parents grieve their children in Newtown, Connecticut. We don’t buy into his myths that transgenderism is a CIA plot to destroy family unit and that Muslims are staging a Western invasion.

At best, Jones’ suspension might curb his online hysterics. At worst, it may have just made him a martyr for those who support him. Let’s be clear: They indeed exist whether we ban them or not.

When will we, the public, take responsibility for our consumption of the truth versus our attention to falsehoods?

Maybe it’s not about Jack Dorsey, Alex Jones or Donald Trump.

Maybe it’s about us.

Amy Russo is a writer for Mediaite, covering media and politics. You can follow her on Twitter: @amymrusso.