> If twitter refused to handle the problem, what happens?

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If only America had a constitutional system that could protect the little guys like Twitter from the mean ol’ government.

With today’s revelations, Twitter was acting as the government, under the direction of government employees, fulfilling traditionally government-roles, often for particular political wings of said government

Employees of what government?

The Trump Whitehouse.

It’s a little generous to call the Trump White House a government. Maybe a syndicate.

In fact in both cases they were happy to comply. No coercion was necessary, making Twitter into an overtly political apparatus in this case.