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For everyone bashing Twitter's actions, including the President, why don't they just leave the platform for Gab or something else?

>>diseas+(OP)
I don't quite understand the "if you don't like it leave" theory. Is it really so unreasonable for people to want to influence the way the established platform works rather than switch and be alone on a new platform. Nobody is going to bother coming with you to Gab.

>>diseas+(OP)
Clearly rhetorical, but the reason is that's where the audience is. They will tolerate a lot for that reason but there's presumably some limit. I would not be surprised if whenever Trump leaves office, he announces he's leaving twitter for some twitter clone he's a part owner of geared for conservative audiences. He might be big enough and important enough to his supporters for this exodus to actually be meaningful.

Don't think he'll do it until he loses an election or his 2nd term is up though.

>>coopsm+b1
For J. Random Twitterer, sure. The President does have whitehouse.gov available, though.

>>coopsm+b1
You could make a similar argument about selling on Amazon. They have rules that you must obey if you want to sell products on their marketplace. If they were not allowed to moderate the content and curate it, then the amazon marketplace would be less appealing to customers and sellers.

Twitter should be able to moderate and curate it's content to protect their brand image. If they don't challenge lies on their platform and remove toxic content, Twitter will become less attractive platform for both individuals and advertisers.

>>diseas+(OP)
That was also the suggestion when businesses didn't want blacks or treated them differently. If you don't like it, leave.