As for the five people you mentioned, the CEOs of the "big tech" firms, are not one entity- you've got to go well beyond the pale (as has happened in the past week) to get them all to agree that it is their company's best interest to deplatform you.
Be consistent, either refuse the cover the lies, or cover all of them. Don't just cover the lies that make you look good. Or more accurately: Don't just cover the lies that get lots of outrage (AKA views), without getting "too much" outrage of course, because that gets people killed.
I guarantee you that if he called into Fox, his comments would be carried by every media outlet and discussed exhaustively on Twitter.
For the record, if Trump called up Maggie Haberman and gave an on-the-record interview, I'm sure that would get covered too!
The discussion around social media then gets split in two; what is currently legal, and what should be legal.
Trump probably doesn't have any current legal right to force Twitter (or CNN) to carry his message. But maybe there should be some laws about what Twitter can't moderate.
[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2020/03/26/8213272...
If Newspapers, TV, and YouTube (etc) all refused to carry the words what other avenue does the President have? An emergency alert to mobile phones?
And B: That doesn't answer the question posed. The question is not about the President, it's about a political dissident in general.
It's an extraordinary circumstance when it's not in the press's best interest to report on press conferences (i.e. it's generally newsworthy information being freely handed out), and this was an extraordinary presidency.
Which, just like any other private entity, if they want to not enable violence then they don't have to do any of those points. I.e. just like twitter.
If it’s hard to get upset about trump/parler getting banned, just sub in your favourite political or artistic group and gauge your reaction.
Pretty much. The President has had access to the bully pulpit for over a hundred years. The decision to rely so heavily on Twitter instead of traditional channels is a strategic failure of the Trump administration. Normalizing this and ceding control of presidential communications to private parties might be a lasting legacy and mistake.
Neither Twitter the company nor society at large is obligated to play into the game where a candidate figures pit how to make a non-traditional platform work for him and then expects help from others when it no longer works for him.
You can't live by the sword and then passionately advocate pacifism when a sword is raised against you.