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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by vipa123 on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:23PM (#25665027)
Exactly. Censorship, which is done by the government, prevents speech on all platforms.

If a person cannot tweet they can still blog, newsletter, email, and even whisper their truth via their free speech to the next person all they like.

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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by bena on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:29PM (#25665150)
I'm going to stop you there.

Private companies can censor. Censorship isn't the sole domain of the government.

Twitter is censoring the President on its platform. As is their right to do so as Twitter is not the government. At least the last time I checked.

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