That is her point: this power belongs to government, not to corporations. DW did not include that part, but other outlets did: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar

That is her point: this power belongs to government, not to corporations. DW did not include that part, but other outlets did: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-11/merkel-sees-closing-trump-s-social-media-accounts-problematic https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-11/merkel-se... >“The chancellor sees the complete closing down of the account of an elected president as problematic,” Steffen Seibert, her chief spokesman, said at a regular news conference in Berlin. Rights like the freedom of speech “can be interfered with, but by law and within the framework defined by the legislature -- not according to a corporate decision.”