Isn't that button open to anyone? Why is the WH account suddenly more imporant than joe smith? Ultimately Facebook makes.the decision. The WH is simply doing what everyone else should: flag it.
Did you read the article that was linked? Or listen to what Psaki said? She said they have senior staff working directly with social media platforms. The White House is the Executive Branch of the government, not an individual citizen. If they are putting pressure on what speech is allowed and what speech is not allowed, to me that seems more than a little problematic. Our resident US-style liberals on the forum should take issue with authoritarian behavior even when that behavior happens to align with their values, because when the behavior doesn't align with their values they shouldn't want to be guilty of helping establish the precedent that made it OK.
Let doctors speak out on medical issues. Let subject matter experts speak out whenever their expertise is needed in a particular matter. The United States government should not need to be actively working with private industry to repress certain kinds of speech that would otherwise be constitutionally protected. Think of the doors this opens for that kind of power to be wielded for other means. I don't understand, as a citizen of the United States, how any other citizen could just sit back and be OK with letting the federal government decide what things are OK to read/hear/see. It's one of the big things we decided to state right at the very beginning would be bad to encourage people to accept.
The Executive Branch of the government, which as a reminder is currently headed by Joe Biden BUT WON'T ALWAYS BE, is running an outreach program to pressure social media to wash away certain topics that they deem not worthy of public discourse. Again, forget about the subject matter they are trying to repress - that's not the issue, it's a red herring.
If everyone can flag the content, let the citizens do so in their capacity as citizens. The leader of the free world doesn't need to be policing what speech is acceptable and what speech isn't. In fact, it's specifically supposed to be something they are not engaging in policing except for within a very narrow type of unprotected speech. The President's Press Secretary should not be out giving press conferences stating the office of the President is being used to repress speech that doesn't violate free speech laws.
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