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If you want to maintain a historical record, shouldn't those tweets or whatever be archived using the presidential records act at the source? This way a privat
by nocturnial 6y ago
If you want to maintain a historical record, shouldn't those tweets or whatever be archived using the presidential records act at the source?
This way a private company doesn't decide or is responsible what gets archived/deleted/censored/annotated but it always gets archived using what worked for every document produced by a president for decades.
I think you have a point of it being archived but I think you're wrong about who should archive it. At the moment the president tweets official policy (maybe debatable, but let's assume it is), so those tweets should fall under the presidential records act and be archived by the white house staff. Then it doesn't matter if they are later deleted by whatever social media company, or even if are censored or have a fact check attached to them. The original message is stored and kept. (well, at least in theory)