On the other hand, the public square, itself, has been privatized into the hands of multi-billion-dollar corporations from whom there is no appeal.
Nobody actually needs a cake. But a head of state needs to talk to his citizens and his citizens need to hear him, even if we think he is a [insert epithet, here].
And all that head of state needs to do is hold a press conference to be heard. He or she does not need Twitter, or Facebook, or Parler, or any other social media platform.
The Internet is meant to dis-intermediate communication. That is its purpose. It's one of the things that makes it such a disruptive change over legacy media platforms. The current de-platforming trend is an attempt to put that genie back in the bottle.
Wow! Another bureaucracy that'll have its own factions with their own agendas that will never work against either their superiors or the electorate.
Over the air? But the youth don't have TVs. They use Twitter and YouTube. But those platforms have banned you.
See the problem?
He could send a letter. I think the USPS is obligated to carry it.
He does not need Twitter or Facebook to reach his constituents; he has a press briefing room in the White House and 24/7 access to reporters. And guess what, whatever he says will get covered by everyone, posted and discussed immediately.
When people argue that social media is too powerful because the President needs it, they are according these companies with way more power then they actually have.