[allthenews]

I don't know what is more absurd: that the president uses a private medium like twitter as a seemingly primary channel to communicate with the nation, or that a private entity is being forced to operate as a public, regulated forum.

[dexen]

>that the president uses a private medium like twitter as a seemingly primary channel to communicate with the nation

This has happened several times in the history, as new technologies became common. Newspapers, radio, (live) TV, social media. Each expansion into the new communication channel caused major change in campaigning style, and (re-)connected the candidates with the common citizen, as the new medium owners had relatively small influence on popular opinion by themselves [1]. Also each time the political old guard was caught by surprise, still focusing on the medium of yesteryear, very much like the 2016 presidential elections.

It's worth noting Obama was a social media savvy candidate and to large extent his campaign pre-saged what went down in the 2016 elections.

[1] IMO all the Twitters and Facebooks owners still have relatively less sway than the TV and older media.

[URSpider94]

The second one isnt happening. Nothing in this ruling puts any burden on Twitter whatsoever. It puts a burden on Trump as to how he uses it. Trump gets to pick which forum he wants to use to make public statements, but he needs to pick fora that comply with government regulations and then use them in a compliant manner.