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Comment by hiimtroymclure | Hacker News Reader

you aren't the president. Any future elected official now has to consider if these social media companies are a good medium to communicate with the people. If that elected official doesn't play big tech's rules, the looming threat of a ban might change their mind.

It's crazy naive to not see the implications of this

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The President has access to TV (this one mainly uses it to go on long winded rambling call-ins to Fox and Friends), not to mention a fairly comprehensive web platform of his own to communicate.

This is a President who wouldn't even use the designated @potus account because he is so narcissistic he wanted the follower count for himself.

What good reason is there for the president to not simply communicate via whitehouse.gov or equivalent?

You might argue that it has lesser reach compared to a major social media site, but there are countless individuals and organizations that would jump to be the first one posting a link to a presidential address on social media sites.

The president has to follow the TOS just like any other user. They aren’t a king.

the implications being??? that it's not a great idea for the POTUS (or equivalent) to consider a private communications platform as their official "channel to the people"? well, duh! who'd have thunk?

Twitter and the like were never a good medium to communicate with the people. Seldom can you say anything serious in 140 characters.

It's almost as if there are official channels to communicate information. Ones that aren't private companies.

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