Daily reminder that free speech entitles you to protection from the government. It doesn't grant you rights to verbally puke all over any social network you please.
The internet is a turn in the opposite direction which is why there has been such an explosion of misinformation and feeding of confirmation bias.
Not exactly...
"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day."
-Thomas Jefferson, 1807
Is the US (or any other) government incapable of creating their own online fora for dissemination of information from leaders?
But yes, to answer your question, the US government has no authority to be in the internet platform business, and that's generally regarded as a good thing.
So many people here seem resigned to this idea that Twitter and Facebook are the only ways to communicate online. I would have thought the most technically capable people in the world would remember that HTML can be served from basically any Internet-accessible computer in the world.
What does it matter if anyone can have a say if they don't get heard?
Nobody is preventing you from putting your political musings in a newsletter distributed by carrier pigeon, or setting up a coöperative news telegraph wire, or your own broadsheet printing press.
You are just as free as ever to put HTML on a server and air-drop and spray paint your dotted-quad all over the physical world. You are equally free to get a bullhorn and stand in the desert and preach to the prairie dogs, should you be so inclined.
If you believe in free speech, those values will probably extend beyond what a court would defend.
But free speech doesn’t mean absolute speech anarchy either.
Twitter itself states that it represents these values.
And according to their own definition, that they self proclaim, that is a lie.