Social media is not our government. It can censor you for whatever it wants. Don't like it? Find another platform.

Yep. Don't like one platform, there are plenty of alternatives. No one site has a monopoly.

Plenty of sites have tried setting themselves up as alternatives to Silicon Valley social media like Gab or Minds. However they immediately get smeared as alt right Nazi platforms so they will never be able to properly challenge Twitter's monopoly. Thankfully it looks like Parler might have a chance at breaking through that negative messaging, so it'll be interesting to see if they can challenge Twitter's monopoly.

I’m well aware that many sites have tried to replicate Twitter and Facebook’s success and have ultimately failed. Before Covid-19, I begrudgingly use Facebook primarily as an online address book. I still don’t even really use Twitter. In fact, I wouldn’t have an account if Trump had not posted a majority of his daily messages there.

Something he should probably consider if he does move to another platform. After all, he is a rather popular President, or at the very least, infamous. He won’t, of course, he is too petty and would think doing something like that would make him look weak.

Other social media sites have been hit with alt-right posts as well, and their solution was to ban such members who make those comments. I don’t understand why it might be so difficult to curtail such criticism unless a majority of its members and comments really are alt-right in nature.

I think the real problem is why the President feels the need to lie, or wildly exaggerate, and if he cannot adapt and conduct himself within a manner that restrains him from making unproven claims, spreading false rumors, and instigating violence; -or without introducing liberal legislation to protect him from censorship. I think it needs to be accepted that it is his personal failure, rather than Twitter’s, in being unable to do that.

After all, if there is one thing I can get a Trump Supporter to begrudgingly admit, it’s that what he says gets him into trouble more often than not.

Personally, I think him getting banned from Twitter would only make him more popular. And I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s actively trying to get banned.

Legally incorrect Social media sites are given special protections under federal in return they are not supposed to take sides in political discussions; IE censoring opinions. Media sites can post and sensor whatever stories they wish (so long as they don't violate pornography laws) If facebook or twitter wants to get in the censorship game they can simply declare themselves a media site, in which case they would lose their protections against libel lawsuits, and tax advantages.

No, what I said was legally correct. Idealistically, yes, people should be protected online from censorship but that isn't how the laws are currently written.

Facebook, and the rest, are recognized as media and thus fall under the jurisdiction of the FCC which has it's own legal redtape and protections between the individual and corporate entities. And since corporates entitles are more profitable for the economy than an individual consumer, they tend to side with the corporate entitles unless there is a flagrant violation of actual discrimination such as political or religious opinion.

If the people filing charges against online media are specifically claiming discrimination, then they are in for a rude awakening as it is likely that online media will win based on the defense that it is simply stopping the spread of unverified information. That defense may very well hold up in court.

Here is an interesting article that backs up my claim by the ABA. They do go on to argue that the First Amendment should be expanded to include online entities as public places rather than corporate platforms but that also is another can of worms.