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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by bsza on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:49PM (#25693703)
Precisely. And that's what people already do when mainstream social media sites won't host their content. Meaning you can't stop misinformation from spreading, not this way. If anything, you're achieving the OPPOSITE effect by turning people who get cancelled into "martyrs".

And by "forcefully", I meant between the walls of the specific media site. (Though good luck explaining the difference to an angry mob.)

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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by acdha on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:22PM (#25695527)
You’re missing a big key concept: Trump wasn’t on Twitter because he couldn’t afford a website. He was there because it gave him a much larger audience than would otherwise seek him out. The right-wingers who complain about the terms of service being enforced are doing so because they know they aren’t going to build anywhere near the audience without considerably more work and time.
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