What government entity does Twitter represent?

When that site has 20+ felonies including pedophilia, yes

And who is going to ban Trump from Twitter?

They should be able to talk all they want. Right up unto the steps of the gallows.

Censorship is, at best, a band-aid. And they can always find ways around it. The best solution isn't to block them from view temporarily, but to teach people to evaluate what they say with empathy and critical thinking.

That is, of course, difficult to accomplish. But then again, there's no easy solutions, only easy excuses.

That’s moderation. When there’s a law against it, that’s censorship.

Frankly a couple of countries have passed laws against Nazi speech and paraphernalia, and after the Nazis plunged the world into the biggest war of all time and murdered 12 million people for their racist ideology, I’m cool with that. If that’s the bar: I can live with it. Murder 12 million, your little club no longer gets to meet.

There have always been rational limits on speech.

You need to read and understand about the Paradox of Intolerance, it's really important.

Banning groups like that only amplifies their "persecuted" persona. It's best to spend on education and destroying their credibility, which is how we dealt with fucking idiots before we got complacent.

A lot of people don't seem to remember Alex Jones getting banned from YouTube in 2018. While rightwing, ultra-MAGA's were already a thing, they were relatively small compared today. Alex Jones was the first high profile ban from social media and it was like tossing gasoline onto a small bush fire.

You have to remember that Trump did not win the first time because he had an army of fanatics. A lot of other factors were at play; from people still upset about the DNC's snubbing of Bernie, to people who weren't fully paying attention (remember, politics used to be boring), to people who voted for Trump simply "for the lols" (don't discount this last group, any historical account that doesn't factor in how important internet memes were to getting that man elected is being willfully ignorant) . Die-hard MAGA's were relatively rare, and usually a source of ridicule.

Until their spokespeople started getting banned from places. It seems so small by today's standards. People get banned and deplatformed all the time. But Alex Jones was the first real incident, and people saw it as a massive attack on free speech. To his relatively small number of followers, the man had his free speech rights violated by the left-wing news cabal for daring to speak the TRUTH™. Suddenly, all their bullshit was justified.

I've always been pretty far-left but I got a deep chill when that happened. I remember remarking to my friends that banning political speech, no matter how full of shit, would only cause problems in the long run, and so it has. Precedent was broken, and the right took it as a declaration of war. I truly believe things would not have gotten nearly as insane as they are had Google not decided to ban him. He deserved it, but they opened a door that couldn't be shut again; and following this was a couple years of high-profile bans of rightwing figureheads and safe-spaces, all cumulating to the shut down of /r/theDonald in 2020. And the infection, which had been contained to a few small corners of the internet, suddenly exploded.

What about censoring neo Nazis?

ineffective, disastrous, & still no bueno. better to educate & discredit their weak reasoning.

DNS is not Twitter. Blocking DNS is the equivalent of blocking off the street to the pub. Getting banned from XYZ service is the equivalent of starting shit at the pub and getting thrown out.

That belongs to a terrorist organization. No thanks.