Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms

Why not just kick him off for tos violation and be done with it. That would be an article worth reading...

He is the President of the United States! And 50% of the people like his policies (if not his personal behavior)

Because Twitter changed its TOS specifically to legitimize Trump's violations of the earlier version.

Trump is working the refs even though they are already very much in his favor.

Only a little under 25% of the US affirmatively voted for him in the 2016 election (a little over 25% voted for his opponent, and roughly 50% chose to not vote at all). Included in that 25% would be people who either voted against his opponent, or voted on a single issue that overrode all other considerations (in the US, blocking legal abortions is the single biggest driver of these voters).

"his policies"?

This is something I don't understand about current politics, a leader uses their people to create greatness. If it's "Trump's policies" wth is everyone else in the political system doing? In the UK we get "Boris says" but it's quite clear all policy decisions are being made under Cummings, and he gets them presumably from liaison with Tory donors.

Trump/Boris clearly know nothing about medicine, epidemiology, public health care so if ideas actually there's they should probably be rejected.

Why this focus on individuals, as if one person should be holding power in a democratic government. That's clearly wrong.

I can imagine a lot of people would start boycotting Twitter after that. Fewer users and their activity means fewer ads displays means fewer $$$ for Twitter.

If people chose not to vote, I don't think their opinion matters too much. Excluding people ineligible to vote and people who didn't vote out of protest, although a better choice would have been to write in a vote.

Hmmm If they also launched some paid model at the same time, I’d consider paying...

We like to believe that government is a person, it takes less mental cycles.