Platforms sanction calls to violent riots from Black Lives Matter and Antifa. So this is all fully based on the political feelings of the platform.
Edit "Platforms also sanction the use of violence by nation states".
If an American platform hosts public officials who use that platform for political purposes, then it should follow that all American citizens should have access to engage, comment and react.
Public officials relying on private platforms for public policy purposes, fundraising etc seems absurd and grotesquely undemocratic.
Strongly agree on public officials using private platforms for policy, but they must have seen something attractive about it. Free people and whatnot...
Many HN posters: "We love free markets, every company should follow their own rules and do what they want"
Company bans violent and insurrectionist speech as is their legal right
Many HN posters: "No, not like that!"