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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?

      1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
    3. 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.

      17 replies 0 retweets 41 likes
    4. Matt Zoller Seitz‏ @mattzollerseitz 26 May 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet @DeanBaker13

      Do you think 10 million people are going to sign up for Gab just to follow Trump’s blathering? He needs this platform more than it needs him.

      3 replies 0 retweets 36 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 May 2020
      Replying to @mattzollerseitz @DeanBaker13

      He doesn't need all those people to sign up. Journalists and supporters will read those and quote them, on twitter and elsewhere. Just like now with TV news shows reporting on what he tweets. It's the fact he's president his words carry, not the medium.

      7:43 PM - 26 May 2020
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        2. Matt Zoller Seitz‏ @mattzollerseitz 26 May 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DeanBaker13

          I don’t think that’s right. The genius of Trump in this regard is that he understood that this platform was perfect for him – he’s not really an Instagram guy! – and that he could go straight to the voters without intermediaries. Your scenario denies him that adrenaline rush.

          2 replies 0 retweets 23 likes
        3. Matt Zoller Seitz‏ @mattzollerseitz 26 May 2020
          Replying to @mattzollerseitz @HeerJeet @DeanBaker13

          To put it another way: why would a guy who has been thriving in a 21st-century means of direct communication be content with going back to something more 20th century? It doesn’t compute, and it doesn’t match up with anything we’ve seen regarding his behavior.

          3 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
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        1. Power Team historian‏ @diarrhangus 26 May 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mattzollerseitz @DeanBaker13

          Twitter is unique. Trump moving to gab or any "conservative Twitter" knockoff would be hugely embarrassing. Millions would absolutely tune out.

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        1. Mojrim ibn Harb‏ @MojrimIbnHarb 27 May 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mattzollerseitz @DeanBaker13

          The presidency predates tweeter, it will survive without tweeter.

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        2. Dean Baker‏ @DeanBaker13 9 Jan 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mattzollerseitz

          That's right, Trump can find other platforms, but Twitter is not a common carrier, it has always applied standards. I am on Twitter and not Parler because I appreciate those standards. Trump violates them, why shouldn't Twitter say so?

          1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
        3. ..still, who is David Harold Blackwell‏ @jimat944 9 Jan 2021
          Replying to @DeanBaker13 @HeerJeet @mattzollerseitz

          Interesting, recentering ALL these timelines now, reflexively or otherwise?

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