Is it not problematic that the government is bringing up specific things they’d like censored?

As long as it stays to the level of "Hey, doesn't this violate your rules?" I think the government has the same right to press the report button, or even to write an email equivalent to pressing report a bunch of times, as anyone else does.

I'm not aware that a Democrat government arrested anyone for not complying with these emails.

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jameslk 3 days ago | parent [-]

Are you suggesting it's okay for the government to push for censoring specific content only when it also happens to break the rules of a site?

How is the flag button equivalent to the White House writing emails to Twitter and Meta? It seems the latter would have a lot more priority than my personal measly attempts at pressing the flag button on something I didn't like

	▲	amanaplanacanal 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah it certainly looked bad. And it gave cover for the new administration to just pretend the first amendment doesn't exist.
	▲	immibis 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'm just as entitled as Joe Biden to write an email to Elon saying he should ban the following rule-breaking posts. I've written emails to HN moderators like that before.