Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms

Turns out, people with important jobs that require impartiality (like judges) have real, personal, opinions and feelings.

but judges are publicly accountable, while corporations (and their agents) can do what they want. Comes back down to the publisher/curator debate.

You can hold private companies accountable via secondary boycott. It's more complicated but it can be done.

He dismissed the entire Midwest as lunatics to be ignored. There’s a lot of hackers and engineers and amazing companies in the Midwest.

He’s mindless in his opinions. He’s not against a policy or a politician. He’s separating society.

I'm from the midwest. I usually get fucking pissed when people call them flyover states, caused major friction with a cofounder for years.

But seeing this mislabeled as "bias" has got to be the silliest and most hyperbolic over-reaction I've ever seen.

It's somebody being a minor asshole on Twitter. That is not bias of any substantial sort.

Feelings are important, but as somebody who does get his (overly sensitive) feelings hurt by that statement, I'm at least mature enough to place it in context.

We need to grow up as a society. There are faaaaaar worse actual biases on display everyday on Twitter, from people with far more power. We have a president who's threatening to use his own political bias to shut down or regulate companies based only in what he perceives as politics.

The amount of leeway given to one side of the political spectrum is what causes this whole heated political climate.

Whenever some known person from the "right side of history" says something clearly bad, there are always comments like yours "but but but", whereas when the source is on the "wrong side of history" it is taken as final and irrefutable proof of their evilness and no amount of perspective or depth is allowed.

Things will get better when we can give a level headed non-partisan response to statements like

>Today on Meet The Press, we're speaking with Joseph Goebbels about the first 100 days...' - What I hear whenever Kellyanne is on a news show.'

I am as annoyed by all the feelings getting hurt as you are, but this guy is directing a sizeable amount of money in some backward intra-nationalist way, which only slows down progress, even if it is 'only perception'. It is open bigotry plain and simple.

'Are held' and 'can be done' are obscenely different to conflate them.

Correct. Also, you won’t be dragged to a keyboard connected to a computer logged in to Twitter at gunpoint, but you sure will be dragged to court to face a judge at gunpoint. There are different standards of accountability that match the standards of compulsion and violence.