[yalogin]

I don’t get the rationale used there. A president is not forced to use Twitter or any other social media. If they choose to use it then they have to abide by the rules of the platform, and the platform should impose the rules as they see fit. Forcing the platform to change the rules because of a special person is a slippery slope.

[muro]

That worked before these platforms were defacto monopolies. Now that they are, there should be different rules. When twitter or Facebook remove someone, it has a huge impact on the individual at no cost to the tech company. With their size, there should be responsibilities to society too, not just shareholders.

[souprock]

He does, uniquely, have alternatives:

https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-circumvents-twitter-ban-wi...

[slowmovintarget]

Right. The President of the United States has the "Bully pulpit" from which to talk. This Twitter thing was because we had a person in office who ignored the dignity of office in favor of tweeting because he didn't like his people telling him he shouldn't say certain things.

He never should've been tweeting while in office in the first place.