Trumpy is now complaining about social media because Twitter recommended a fact check on his recent tweets. Of course, the fact check reveals that either he did not know the facts or, more likely, was misrepresenting the facts, that is, lying. Is a Twitter account a license to lie? Can I use twitter to recommend potentially dangerous drugs? Is Twitter to be used for character assassinations that are little more than the late-night flatulence of a dotty old man? And if you do tell lies on Twitter, do you have any right to prevent anyone from saying that they are lies? 

Trumpy is angry with the social media because he does not like the coverage of him that he finds there. He would die, of course, if people stopped paying attention to him, but it has to be the attention-with-adulation that he has to have.

Trumpy is angry with Twitter and with all the other mainline social media companies also because “Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservative voices,” and he’s threatening “big action” against the social media.

If you take your ideas to the market to sell and they won’t sell, you might conclude that your product is not good enough or you might claim that the market is “rigged” against your product. As we have seen again and again, Trump accuses his critics of the faults of which he is most guilty. Trump complains that everything is rigged against him. I think it is rather the case that he tries to rig everything in his favor.

As to silencing conservative voices: The far right, neo-Nazis, gun nuts, Klansmen, pseudo-patriots, pseudo-Christians and rebels against the U.S. Government crowd the internet with their conspiracy theories and hate-speech. The internet has given them the biggest boost since hate was invented. Does the internet fail to show true conservatives the respect they think is their due, fail to glamorize their bad ideas? Maybe they could think about how to make themselves more respectable and try to come up with ideas that are more than the directives of their plutocrat supporters.

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