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Re:YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel by eloisant on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @06:13AM (#25760638)
It is true that Trump shouldn't have relied on social media that much, and used official channels for communication.

But on the other hand, you can't deny that a few services became indispensable to get any kind of reach... So if we accept that those companies decide what content gets in or not, we accept that they control what content gets to be shown publicly or not.

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Re:YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel by PeterStuer on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @12:40PM (#25765382)
Exactly. Maybe he could have used the telex and fax machines, as that is the category where 'websites' 'blogs' and 'mailing lists' have been relegated to for a while now.

I'm not a fan of the man but in practice nearly all non media framed public discourse happens on FB, YT, Twitter and a few tier 2 services. If the social media conglomerate decides to nix you, you are done with reaching the broad public directly.

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