I am disappointed that anyone thinks this is a good idea, regardless of your political view. The principles behind the United States are that we prefer a mess

I am disappointed that anyone thinks this is a good idea, regardless of your political view. The principles behind the United States are that we prefer a mess to tyranny and noise to suppression. It's not about Trump. It's about whether we trust anyone to make decisions about what is right and not right for someone to say, because whoever has that power will inevitably abuse it. If you feel fine about this now because you disagree with the person being silenced, then just try to imagine being on the other side of that - calling out what you perceive to be a great injustice only for someone to have the power to take away your voice completely. This is not a constitutional argument, as Twitter isn't government and not bound by first amendment, it's a principles argument. If you support suppression of speech that's "obviously wrong" to you, you're gonna be in a lot of pain down the road when someone finds YOU obviously wrong. Having been born and lived in the USSR, this is very real. A lot of folks who were on the "right side of history" in 1917 when it came to suppressing/killing "the obvious enemies of the people", found themselves against the wall in the 20s and 30s. Once you create a system that's more powerful than people, it's just a matter of time before it decides that you're not good enough either.