Trump announces lawsuit against Facebook, Google and Twitter
(www.youtube.com)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (57)
sorted by:
"No Executive Branch Office or Employee when acting in the official capacity of their position, shall disseminate any communications -- official or unofficial -- over the social media platform commonly known as Twitter"
Use of electronic systems by government offices and employees is restricted all the time: they don't get to install whatever software they want on their government issued computers.
Honestly it would be good to extend that rule to all government officials on all media platforms. When did we get to a point where everyone @FBI @USARMY @IRS @NASA @USHOUSE @USEMBASSYINNEPAL are making their own random statements about whatever they want? Shouldn't all government communications be disseminating from a single source or at least be approved?
I first noticed the phenomenon when @FBIPortland quickly tweeted an official statement (before they could have even started any investigation) that "there is no group setting fires on the west coast, that's just a conspiracy theory, so please stop calling the police to report that you saw someone setting a fire."