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by oaijdsfoaijsf 3152 days ago
Heh? It is also part of their political speech to keep or delete his account. That is an equally important aspect of the free speech right -- the option to allow one's property to be used for a certain type of speech, or not. Not saying I think they should or shouldn't, but you can't evaluate the free speech implications of their deleting his account while only considering his free speech rights. Theirs are equally important.
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Twitter and other social media networks should be seen as common carriers and not interfere with what people post. Twitter should be able to exercise their free speech on their own twitter account, not by censoring other users.

It is ideal for social media to be common carriers the same way the net should be neutral.

Why is that ideal? Social media censors dangerous / disruptive (to the community) shit all the time, which is appropriate IMO.