It's scary that three tech companies can censor a president like this.
He is the President of the most powerful country in the world. He could call a news conference and make himself available to the people. Those who wish to hear what he has to say can come, listen, and cover his story.
Furthermore, whitehouse.gov is accessible to everyone. RSS is a thing.
It's ridiculous that people are actually trying to argue that the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth has no effective way to communicate with the public outside of Twitter.
Obama is just one president in a sea of 45 presidents over the course of 231 years. They all managed just fine without tech companies, and Trump will manage to find a way.
Besides whitehouse.gov, which he should've been using, he has no other way to quickly, directly communicate to any constituent that wants to see his message.
Oh wait...
Somebody must to do the job, and republican party was clearly useless for that.
Not censoring him before has lead to this insanity, a woman killed today and thousands of really misguided people that will end in jail. Fortunately they were white and the police got confused whereas deciding between friend or foe; I don't think that the outcome would have been so restrained in case of a majority of black people trying to assault the capitol.
We live in the information age, why is it so hard for a newspaper to add "example.com/news/1234/sources" to the bottom of the article to give us a nice little Harvard format list of references to all the claims they make?
If you're saying that this particular message shouldn't have been cancelled, different discussion.
But you literally have a mob which stormed and broke into the capitol of the US, with armed guns, and explosives being found, all of which directly linked to the president lying for weeks, instigating things and calling on his followers to rise up, now obviously resulting in risk of violence and at least one person getting shot in the neck. The notion that such lies should continue to be freely posted on a platform that has basic rules in place just because it's the president, is insane. If the president is insane and it's causing violence, you can't just sit back. (insert obligatory WWII/Hitler reference if you will)
Lastly, he has plenty of communication channels. What's scary is if a private company like Twitter or any other news outlet got forced to publish whatever the current person in power wanted to say on their platform.
I wanted to see what he said that was so bad it had to be removed. But I couldn't, and I didn't know where else to look. So I'm left in the dark. I had the know-how to go to Parlor, but not everyone does. It just seems unfair that tech companies get to decide if the average Joe gets to see a message from the President or not. Trump should have normalized posting his messages on whitehouse.gov or something to avoid this.
When the left does it, even if they're hyper violent, it's called a peaceful protest. When the right does it, it's a coup and insurrection.
Yeah right.
Wait, the left forcibly occupied the Capitol at the behest of the defeated candidate with the overt goal of using threat of violence to get the election results disregarded?
When?
You can grasp the next "fact": that the Trumpites were peaceful, this was an Antifa false flag operation (you can find doctored evidence of this on Twitter). If you can lie to yourself about that, then you can go to sleep at night feeling that you're the moral one, that you're the one still on the correct side of humanity...