The action taken against Trump on his tweets is the realization of a fear of free speech advocates. People sign up for updates from Trump, not Twitter, but the company decided to force his 80 million followers to hear its own position on this issue...thehill.com/opinion/civil-…
...The choice to target a political statement on Twitter was no accident. It is precisely the type of statement that Democrats have been targeting for years. In one hearing, Senator Mark Warner boomed that “the era of the Wild West in social media is coming to an end.” ...
...That intolerable Wild West is the existence of an area of relatively unregulated free speech. Indeed, like the pioneers of democracy, many people have gone to social media to speak their minds openly. That frontier of free speech may now be vanishing. thehill.com/opinion/civil-…
