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Being banned still prevents you from interacting in more ways. Trump retweets and tags people/organizations all the time.


The key here is that the Twitter is under no responsibility to facilitate your first amendment rights. The government, solely and exclusively, cannot limit your free speech; Twitter can do whatever they want, and are under no legal obligation to provide any service whatsoever to you.


I see. The user anigbrowl clarifies further below:

> Allowing the government to use your service [as its preferred way of communicating] does not thereby make it part of the government.




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