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Comment by rasengan | Hacker News Reader

This is blatant censorship of the President of the United States, regardless of anyone's thoughts or opinions about him.

Edit: It may be fun to downvote and might make some feel great for a period of time, but it doesn't change the fact that the President of the country of free speech is being censored.

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Being the president doesn't mean you can say whatever bullshit you want and incite violence with no consequences.

But he did the exact opposite. He said to keep protest peaceful. I guess twitter didnt like that so they deleted those tweets.

So no freedom of speech for some us citizens?

This reads as a Slippery slope argument

Where's the freedom of speech issue with a private company not carrying messages from any specific person?

The issue that the post I replied to was not about a private company.

Apologies if you misunderstood.

Twitter has a monopoly and needs to be broken up.

Speech inciting illegal actions or soliciting others to commit crimes is not protected under the first amendment.

The constitution also lays out what crimes a president can be impeached for. I have to explicitly say this so people don’t misinterpret my words: I’m not supporting trump, I’m talking from a purely scholastic position.

You can look up respected legal scholars from Georgetown who came to This conclusion during Clinton’s impeachment

Why is Trump speech more important than Twitter's?

You talk about censorship but would allow Trump to censor Twitter if he got to decide what they publish.

And that would be unconstitutional.

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