As long as it stays to the level of "Hey, doesn't this violate your rules?" I think the government has the same right to press the report button, or even to write an email equivalent to pressing report a bunch of times, as anyone else does.
I'm not aware that a Democrat government arrested anyone for not complying with these emails.
Are you suggesting it's okay for the government to push for censoring specific content only when it also happens to break the rules of a site?
How is the flag button equivalent to the White House writing emails to Twitter and Meta? It seems the latter would have a lot more priority than my personal measly attempts at pressing the flag button on something I didn't like
Yeah it certainly looked bad. And it gave cover for the new administration to just pretend the first amendment doesn't exist.
I'm just as entitled as Joe Biden to write an email to Elon saying he should ban the following rule-breaking posts.
I've written emails to HN moderators like that before.