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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by hiimtroymclure on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:38PM (#25692313)
you aren't the president. Any future elected official now has to consider if these social media companies are a good medium to communicate with the people. If that elected official doesn't play big tech's rules, the looming threat of a ban might change their mind.

It's crazy naive to not see the implications of this

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by FireBeyond on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:48PM (#25692583)
The President has access to TV (this one mainly uses it to go on long winded rambling call-ins to Fox and Friends), not to mention a fairly comprehensive web platform of his own to communicate.

This is a President who wouldn't even use the designated @potus account because he is so narcissistic he wanted the follower count for himself.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by fuzxi on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:10PM (#25692988)
What good reason is there for the president to not simply communicate via whitehouse.gov or equivalent?

You might argue that it has lesser reach compared to a major social media site, but there are countless individuals and organizations that would jump to be the first one posting a link to a presidential address on social media sites.

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by lame-robot-hoax on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:01PM (#25692827)
The president has to follow the TOS just like any other user. They aren’t a king.
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:49PM (#25692593)
the implications being??? that it's not a great idea for the POTUS (or equivalent) to consider a private communications platform as their official "channel to the people"? well, duh! who'd have thunk?
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by mac01021 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @07:04AM (#25699678)
Twitter and the like were never a good medium to communicate with the people. Seldom can you say anything serious in 140 characters.
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by andrewzah on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:33PM (#25695627)
It's almost as if there are official channels to communicate information. Ones that aren't private companies.
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