Trump bans EPA employees from giving social media updates.

[DonFerrari]

Scoobes said:

DonFerrari said:

Those aren't sites... I though you were talking about something else. So you are basically saying some pages inside the social media, ok.

Have this decree ordered that they can't participate in discussion or that they can't release information by themselves? There is a big difference.

And the place for major scientific discussion are usually universities, companies, simposiuns, etc. Not twitter.

They can't post anything work related on social media, so those social media groups would count, effectively eliminating discussion on these sites. 

And science is a growingly collaborative endeavour. Social media sites are an instanteous way to bounce ideas off from scientists around the world. Of course that happens in the smaller groups within a university or company but it has far greater reach on social media. Conferences/sympossiums are also great but they take time to setup and are costly. 

I would bet most companies also ban communication of the work performed inside in any public outlet.

But wellcome to what several classic liberals would tell you. The more power the government have the more power it will use against you.