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A comment on Trump to sign executive order on social media Thursday.

Re:Trump to sign executive order on social media Thursday by VWWHFSfQ on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @09:31PM (#23332383)
> Social media platforms' legal right as private companies to delete or otherwise regulate speech – or, in this case, tweets – is well established.

I'm curious how this will work out for tweets by the USA president.

Twitter will easily delete anything the Chinese, French, or German government deems "unacceptable" speech. They've never deleted anything that the USA government has requested (the USA government has never requested anything to be deleted).

What's the difference here? What's the double-standard?

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Re:Trump to sign executive order on social media Thursday by rsynnott on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @09:36PM (#23332423)
It has deleted things in accordance with local law (and it absolutely does delete things illegal in the US). What things were you thinking the US government should ask it to delete? Under what law?
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