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by hype7 1987 days ago
Yeah, except for the fact that there’s no one bbs “to rule them all”. The power these platforms have mean they’re up there in terms of influence of govt.

As I saw concisely said on Twitter: If you can silence a king, you are the king

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There's nothing more absurd than calling the loudest carnival barker on the planet with virtually every form of media at his hands "silenced".
There are reasonable concerns about precedent here, but it's hard to see a reasonable perspective where this particular enforcement action is "silencing". If Trump has something he'd like people to hear, he can simply announce a press conference, and dozens of major news organizations will be ready within minutes to share his thoughts with the world.
How quickly we forget the past. Trump took to Twitter specifically because he believed none of the news organizations were reliable narrators of his messaging.
He believed that because to him, anything less than obsequious praise is fake. It doesn’t make it true.
Back in 2017 Trump had 3643 domains. I can only speculate that there are more now. There's no substance to the claim that he's silenced.

https://money.cnn.com/2017/02/20/technology/trump-websites/i...

How many eyeballs spend how many minutes per day on those domains?

Exposure != delivery points.

Twitter has audience.