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No, a Twitter ban does not infringe Trump’s freedom of speech
There is no legal requirement for any privately-owned platform to host the president’s views
In a response typical of those decrying Donald Trump’s Twitter ban, his namesake son tweeted:
- Chris Stevenson
- Independent
“Free speech is dead and controlled by leftist overlords.”
Nothing performative about that reaction, eh?
The fact that the current president’s message is being “controlled” by anyone other than himself is laughable.
There are other official White House and presidential Twitter feeds to get policy points out, plus a communications team.
If Trump convened a press conference, you would have the…