[ForHackernews]

> Twitter just effectively started a full-scale war with the federal government.

This is kind of true, but also points to just how insane this historical moment is. Can you imagine any prior administration acting this way? Can you imagine Bill Clinton raging out about AOL, or GW Bush trying to sic the FCC on Yahoo because it sent his email to spam?

[CapricornNoble]

>>>Can you imagine any prior administration acting this way?

I wasn't alive for them, but I wouldn't be surprised if Truman or Eisenhower would crush Twitter in the age of McCarthyism. Although they tended to focus on individuals rather than companies or organizations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

[lacker]

Yep. Truman called the press “paid prostitutes of the mind”.

[lacker]

I can imagine a lot of prior administrations fighting with the media.

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”

- Thomas Jefferson

plenty more where that came from at https://www.history.com/news/presidents-relationship-with-pr...

[DeonPenny]

Yeh but imagine a social media site censoring or correcting a sitting president. The president didn't start that. What if AOL or Yahoo did the same to GW Bush or Clinton I doubt the response would be any different. It may of been worse

[derwiki]

Someone should point out to Trump that Google is classifying his emails as spam. It’s true, because I signed up for his newsletter and mark it spam.

[lowdose]

Brilliant