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I love how everyone just uses the term "sitting president" verbatim now when making this argument, as if the prospect of a president losing their social media accounts is supposed to fill us with dread, sitting or no. It's almost become like a verbal tic.

Everything that president said and did was covered by the press around the world, an army of spokespeople and a million online sycophants. He isn't (and certainly wasn't) "stifled" by the banning of his social media accounts. Really, tech companies bent over backwards to accommodate him, gave him far more slack than they would give you or I. And even then he had to cross the line twice.

Hell, he's still the frontrunner for the Republicans in 2024, and the last anyone heard from him was that he was selling NFTs.

The narrative of Trump being silenced by big tech isn't working, find another one already.

Yet they never mention how significant "a sitting president tried to void an election and overthrow a democratically elected government" is.

> Everything that president said and did was covered by the press around the world, an army of spokespeople and a million online sycophants.

Except virtually everyone I spoke to was unaware of what his final posts on social media on jan6 were, they were not covered, and they were lied about for years with no way for the public to see that in fact he called for people to go home peacefully on jan6.

You can say things like this, but they carry more weight when they're true.

> Except virtually everyone I spoke to was unaware of what his final posts on social media on jan6 were, they were not covered,

And who are these people you've been speaking to? Clearly they're living under rocks.

> and they were lied about for years with no way for the public to see that in fact he called for people to go home peacefully on jan6.

"no way for the public to see" ??? This is nonsense - he first called for people to go home on Jan 6 via a televised announcement, then repeated that on social media, before being banned. The TV announcement was covered and broadcast by multiple TV networks.

Just 3 seconds of Googling brings up this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_JxN9CwIMU

Oh and it's CNN coverage, of all networks!

I saw his tortured video of asking the crowd to go home on January 6th, on TV, and then many times elsewhere. He made multiple takes, and himself inserted the line about "loving" the insurrectionists. What are you TALKING about? What lies? Be specific.

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