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If Twitter would ban you or me for saying what Trump says, why shouldn't Trump be banned? It's a matter of fairness and uniformly applying the rules. As the pr
by brighteyes 9y ago
If Twitter would ban you or me for saying what Trump says, why shouldn't Trump be banned? It's a matter of fairness and uniformly applying the rules.
As the president, he'll easily find other means to get his message out, just not on Twitter.
The only sort-of argument I can see here is that the modern state gives the government a monopoly on the use of force, so there is something special about the government already, and maybe Twitter should reflect that by not banning the government for acting that way. But I don't really buy that logic.
In the end, either Twitter is a place where threats of violence are allowed, or not. Letting only some people make such threats makes no sense.