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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 May 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Adam Serwer  🍝

      This seems obviously right to me. What's the argument against this?https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1265402997858873345 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Adam Serwer  🍝Verified account @AdamSerwer
      You can’t deplatform the president of the United States. It’s just not a thing that’s possible.
      102 replies 11 retweets 315 likes
    2. Dean Baker‏ @DeanBaker13 26 May 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      not sure what that means. you can't throw him off twitter, why not?

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 May 2020
      Replying to @DeanBaker13

      He would just get another platform, which people would have to pay attention to because he is, after all, the president of the United States. It's his being POTUS that's the problem, not twitter.

      7:23 PM - 26 May 2020
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        2. Dean Baker‏ @DeanBaker13 26 May 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Come on, Trump would blow a goddamn fuse if he were thrown off Twitter, it would make the DC 4th of July fireworks show look like a little kid's sparkler.

          1 reply 2 retweets 10 likes
        3. Craig Harrington‏ @Craigipedia 26 May 2020
          Replying to @DeanBaker13 @HeerJeet

          He wouldn't get another platform, because none of us are going to switch to using GAB. If he was blocked from Twitter, he would have to do real communications, would get bored and infuriated within a few hours, and then probably rage-quit the entire presidency.

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        2. khoragos‏ @khoragos 26 May 2020
          Replying to @JoshuaSSharp @HeerJeet @DeanBaker13

          It would be a 9-day wonder I'm sure, but there's nothing he likes more than an enemy with principles & no money.

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        2. Greg Anrig‏ @GregAnrig 26 May 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DeanBaker13

          Which platform specifically? The futility argument, which usually comes from the right, is rarely well thought through.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 May 2020
          Replying to @GregAnrig @DeanBaker13

          All Trump has to do is release his tweets on Gab and as TikTok videos (with him reading them out) and they would instantly be copied and spread by journalists, including on twitter.

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        2. Yelnick McGwawa‏ @YelnickMcGwawa 26 May 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DeanBaker13

          I'm not sure you are understanding the difference between official civil discourse and having a pouting machine of hate that is amplified. Hitler had official channels, but what if he had Twitter?

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        3. Phil Green‏ @philgreen 27 May 2020
          Replying to @YelnickMcGwawa @HeerJeet @DeanBaker13

          If Hitler had Twitter I don't think it would have been any worse. You worried about the level of civil discourse in Nazi Germany?

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        1. Adam Miller  🇺🇦‏ @ajm6792 26 May 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DeanBaker13

          Where? Why would he bring more of the general population with him than the Nazis? Even if the press follows, won’t millions be spared unfiltered nonsense?

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        1. tiburke‏ @tiburke 26 May 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DeanBaker13

          One could say it's Trump being POTUS that's the problem, not Fox News. But in both cases, Fox and Twitter, the platform matters.

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