"They're a private company, they can do whatever they want"
This statement is a cynical rhetorical weapon. No one actually believes a private company *should* be unconstrained to do "whatever they want"
not specifically bothered by his account ban, but am bothered by how nothing is done for years and then without the rules explicitly changing, there is a purge of right-wing accounts across multiple platforms, as well as OS-level bans of competing platforms.
Twitter's efficient justification for suspension would have been "we are a commercial entity and we were tired of dealing with the problems that this specific person creates for us." Instead they went with a quasi-regulatory rationale based on principles. Much less efficient.
Do you ever wonder about how this reflects the network bubble of your followers vs. broader opinion?
In any case, I’m not bothered, to me the Trump ban falls into the COVID tech acceleration bandwagon.
The American national myth is based on the president as a semireligious redeeming uniting figure for the land.
Trump was shattering that by playing the written instead of unwritten rules, and scapegoating Trump is only pulling back the curtain on the entire artifice.