Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours
by Nextgrid on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:31AM
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I think his point isn't that politics are being discussed on a private platform, it's that the most up-to-date, official communication channel of the President is an account on a private social network instead of on government-owned infrastructure.
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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours
by jacobr1 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:02AM
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But the problem is really one of misuse of the bully-pulpit rather than the the fact it is private. If trump had his own blog on the whitehouse.gov site, hosted on government servers and still posted the stuff he does, would it be the same? I'm sure plenty of folks would proxy the material to various outlets including the twitter.
Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours
by Nextgrid on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:34AM
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I think the problem of the president saying things many find unacceptable is separate from the private vs public platform thing.
In this case I am purely talking about the latter - the fact that to keep up with what the president says I have to agree to a private company's terms of service, privacy policy (which is against my interest) and have to put up with my personal data being exploited for advertising, the advertising itself and various dark patterns.