It is unclear what authority, if any, the president was citing in his threat to close social media platforms down, but the tweets surely were meant to escalate pressure on the platform that hosted them.
Key point, right there.
What authority? National security case closed
Something along the line of "we have strong evidences that twitter is PLA's arm, undermining american interests on behalf of CCP" or whatever shit
And if someone steps in and ask to see the so called evidences, the answer is the same, national security, that's classified, fuck you
Since patriot act, under the label of "national security" you can do pretty much anything you want these days, you can detain people in offshore torture camps for unlimited periods of time and nobody is going to do shit about it
He would guarantee a loss in November if he pulled that shit.
A loss? Against who?
Even if trump was cancer the rest is still ebolapox
You mean trump's support base would turn on him if he shuts down twitter with executive order? You really think righties would show up en masse to support twitter?
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I don't think so quite frankly, a bunch would probably say that's not nice blah blah blah muh principles, but all those who got banned for being on the right of marx would probably just sit on their hands at the end of the day
Would anti trumpers lose their shit? Of course, but it's not like they are going to vote trump anyway
Who stormed the white house over partiot act? Nobody did, nobody will, that's how things are now, trump or no trump, righties aren't going to do shit about it, not even a phone call not even a mail not even a petition, nothing
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