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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by giarc on Thursday January 07, 2021 @11:03AM (#25672545)
I find it odd to say taking him off twitter is censorship. Twitter is used by 22% of adult Americans (according to Pew).

Trump and any president, on a whim can speak live to all Americans through all cable news channels. He could have called NBC, Fox, CBS, ABC etc to the Oval Office and in 5 minutes be live on basically every channel (including being streamed live on twitter). Instead he choose Twitter.

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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:00PM (#25674675)
Apparently somewhere between 30 and 40% of adult Americans get news from TV, depending on whose surveys you look at. And cable news is only 16-19% of adults, having fallen enormously since 2016 and 2017 surveys. It was more than twice the proportion just a few years ago!

But yeah, he can always address the press and let the press disseminate his statements, which has its own pros and cons.

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