The twitter accounts are presumably run by people who are employed by agencies funded by the US government. They could lose their jobs or have funding problems

The twitter accounts are presumably run by people who are employed by agencies funded by the US government. They could lose their jobs or have funding problems because of this. I think a more fair comparison would be to when scientists were gagged in Canada, under the Prime Minister Harper era. One of many sad examples: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/harperman-tony-turner-scientist-investigation-1.3207390 http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/harperman-tony-turner-scient... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei50lM6ab1c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei50lM6ab1c Of course, it's not muzzling, it's "ethics violations".