The problem all along is that Donald Trump was indulged by social media platforms and allowed to violate its rules repeatedly. He regularly said things that if any of us said them, we'd be in Twitter jail. Why was he spared? Because he had the most elite position on Earth.

Either have these terms of service or don't. There has a been a double standard for years on Twitter, Facebook and other platforms. Ordinary people get suspended, shadow-banned, etc. for all sorts of things that the President got away with saying every single day.

I don't know how exactly to disentangle the public service element of social media from its private ownership - this feels like a First Bank of the United States debate from the 1790s - but there has to be at least some degree of consistency.

Maybe it's best that government officials stay off social media entirely. Release official communications the old fashioned way - with insipid talking points on fancy stationery - and then let regular people circulate them and comment on them as they wish.