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Rick Hasen and Nate Persily on Replatforming Trump on Social Media

The Lawfare Podcast

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The Platforms Have the Power to Do This, Right?

I think once he started veiled threats of violence in that way, my view is that that was reason enough to take him off the platform. I would add that the moment when Trump encouraged people to come for wild protests in DC, that's the moment I called for him to be deplatform. And so yes, if he says, come, let's storm the Capitol and kill people. That's clear. He doesn't say that. He says, come to Washington, it's going to be wild. Right? What was the speech that put him over the edge?

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