If you are the White House, you are not a regulator of anything. It is fine to express your opinion. In fact the White House has a daily press briefing for specifically that purpose. It is fine to call out people with whom you disagree. Perfectly OK to call them dangerous charlatans and liars. It is not OK to censor their speech. It is not OK use the implicit coercive force of the executive branch to encourage third parties to censor them.
It's not hard to understand.
If you are the White House, you are the ur-regulator of anything any part of the executive branch is a regulator of, as well as the things that the Executive Office of the President is the actual direct regulator of (which are mostly internal to government operations.)
Edit: Amazing, a perfect factual comment is downvoted.
There is a diff between opinion and force/blackmail disguised as opinion.
"You have a fine shop here, would be a shame if it burned down".
Syntactically, it is an opinion. But it is not just an opinion if comes from a mobster.
What they can’t do is ring up Twitter and Facebook and say, hey, that’s misinformation, do something about it. Or have government embeds giving guidance.
That’s hilariously very ayatollesque behavior!
How can anyone defend this behavior? Just because it's your guy doing it? If Trump was telling Twitter to delete posts that hurt his re-election chances would you feel this same way?
Never did I say that I support governments. I was only asking what I thought (and was wrong about) was a positive provoking question.
