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> (...) but this is a decisive demonstration that mega-corporations can just discipline the speech of the president It really isn't. Trump unilaterally desired
by rualca 6y ago
> (...) but this is a decisive demonstration that mega-corporations can just discipline the speech of the president
It really isn't. Trump unilaterally desired to use a private service as his main medium of mass communication, while he also unilaterally decided to not only shun his standard and traditional media of mass communication.
If he wanted it, he had at his disposal all media in the whole world to address the public.
But somehow he chose to use a free service provided by a single and very specific private company which also has a very public and clear list of service terms and conditions.
To make matters worse, in spite of his individual choice of using the private company's service as his exclusive medium of mass communication, somehow he also threatened the company with judicial and criminal persecution if they didn't abused by his very personal and unorthodox choices and preferences, which rendered his continuous use of the service as a major liability.
Thus it's pretty obvious that no, a corporation like Twitter cannot discipline the speech of a US president. What we have seen is a president that, due to his individual lack of judgement and insistence of exclusively using a private service while ignoring every single alternative there is in the world proceeded to violate the service's terms and conditions, thus resulting in the service being terminated.
- tehjoker 6y agoIt's not just one service, we're seeing Twitter and Facebook and now a mail service too. It's really a large fraction of the services he uses coordinating to shut him out for better or worse.
- rualca 6y ago> It's not just one service, we're seeing Twitter and Facebook and now a mail service too. I haven't seen any reference regarding any email service, and to me that sounds something between unbelievable and an absurd excuse in light of the criticism of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email service. And moreover doesn't the white house operate their official email service? Regarding Facebook, all I've seen is a notice that an official page that wasn't used at all was suspended for a week. Does a temporary suspension of an account that's not used count as manipulating speech? I understand the need to grasp as straws to find any excuse for outrage, but you have to do far better than that.
- brigandish 6y ago> I haven't seen any reference regarding any email service It was in a former title of this page, and if you'd followed the link and read the tweet you'd see it was about a service called Campaign Monitor: > Email Marketing | Email Software | Campaign Monitor That's the strap line for their website. Like many here, I often read the comments, sometimes without reading the linked site, but when commenting it does help to follow the link first.