> they might ultimately provide a net benefit to the future of western democracy if they simply banned Donald Trump from twitter What's your evidence for this?

> they might ultimately provide a net benefit to the future of western democracy if they simply banned Donald Trump from twitter What's your evidence for this? If we were talking about a right wing demagogue without real power like Steve Bannon, I might agree. But Donald Trump is actually the president. He is the commander in chief of the most powerful military on earth and he has nuclear weapons at his direct command. He can pardon any criminal in the US and can fire any member of the federal executive branch. The US department of justice reports to him. Twitter can't give him more power because he already has it. Doesn't blocking him from twitter simply mean that it is harder to incriminate or expose his thoughts and activities? IMO his tweets only undermine his power, they do not increase it.