Facebook's (FB  ) newly appointed oversight board has decided that the company was right to ban former President Donald Trump following the January 6 insurrection, but that the suspension can't be "indefinite." Instead, the board announced that Facebook has six months to decide for themselves whether or not to make the ban permanent.

In the meantime, Trump will remain banned off of Facebook's platform. However, the board's decision creates an opening for Trump to return. The former president was banned initially because the risk of violence was "simply too great," according to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

In the same week as the Facebook ban, Trump was also banned permanently off of Twitter (TWTR  ). While Trump's potentially dangerous behavior prior to the bans was far from ordinary, unilateral decisions by giant tech companies to allow or restrict the speech of users have many worried about the amount of power these companies have over public discourse.

Of course, Trump's situation is also unique in that he is a world leader, raising questions of whether or not politicians have to follow the same rules as everyone else. So far, political leaders have fallen into the "newsworthiness" exception, meaning that they are unlikely to face the same consequences as normal users.

The decision by Facebook's board shows that the current norm is to allow these mega-companies to decide for themselves what should and should not be allowed on their platforms.

"In applying a vague, standardless penalty and then referring this case to the Board to resolve, Facebook seeks to avoid its responsibilities," the board's ruling reads. "The Board declines Facebook's request and insists that Facebook apply and justify a defined penalty."

Still, the presence of the board at all is a move towards more oversight of these tech companies' choices. Facebook has stated that their "supreme court" has full autonomy over its decisions, along with a $130 million budget.

Criticism of the oversight board revolves around the alleged fact that it gives Zuckerberg a way to pass off the responsibility of making tough decisions. Because of this, the board's choice to send the ban back to Facebook is a sign that they won't simply make Facebook's choices for it.

"Facebook's decision to impose an indefinite suspension wasn't supported by their own rules. And then to request the oversight board to endorse this move was actually wrong," board co-chair Helle Thorning-Schmidt told reporters. Thorning-Schmidt further argued that Facebook had "shirked its responsibilities" by failing to give Trump's ban a clear time frame.

Of course, Trump hasn't been silent on the issue either.

"What Facebook, Twitter, and Google (GOOGL  ) have done is a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our Country," Trump wrote in a statement released shortly after the board's ruling. "These corrupt social media companies must pay a political price, and must never again be allowed to destroy and decimate our Electoral Process."

Trump's statement mirrors part of the speech that contributed to his ban in the first place: spreading questionable information about U.S. elections. He also denied the threat of COVID-19, made taunts about a nuclear conflict, and allegedly encouraged violence at the capital.

Meanwhile, Facebook is facing heat from all sides regarding the way it applies its rules. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have accused the company of enforcing rules in a partisan way. While Democrats argue that Facebook allows Republican misinformation to flourish, Republicans argue that Facebook does too much to restrict conservative speech.