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> 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.

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Holding a press conference means that the message gets filtered through media companies with their own agendas (OAN or CNN; pick your poison).

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.

So? We could start a "government information bureau" to fix that, if we wanted.

A “government information bureau?”

Wow! Another bureaucracy that'll have its own factions with their own agendas that will never work against either their superiors or the electorate.

I love how you ignore the last 3 words of the comment.

Holding a press conference that will be broadcast how?

Over the air? But the youth don't have TVs. They use Twitter and YouTube. But those platforms have banned you.

See the problem?

Nope, sure don't.

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