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Sure, but such bullying is rather dangerous.

Normally such threads come from people which are somewhat in the process or trying to de-mantel a democracy. So a US president saying something like that is quite worrying even if his intentions are not to undermine the US democracy.

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That is exactly his intentions. He is an idiot for using Twitter in the first place. He should have been advocating for a decentralized Internet where his followers could live in a bubble catered to them.

Aren't the algorithms probably better at curating that bubble than people would be themselves though? If I started using Twitter and I followed Trump, a few people posting weird pro-Trump memes about him at the top of the comments on his tweets, and pro-Trump media, wouldn't the algorithm curate me a pretty nice bubble feed? Twitter always spam my feed with random things people I follow liked/replied to, surely they'd do the same for people with that sort of account too?

There's bullying and there's bullying. Some Presidents have used the IRS against their opponents. If this President uses only rhetoric, then I'm fine with that. Also, pushing rule-making authority at the FCC or FTC is not over the line the way using the IRS is.

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