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Bainbridge in reply to @tb

Let's just flip this round for a second.

Imagine Twitter exists but it's owned by a right-leaning Jack Dorsey.

Towards the end of Bidens presidency, with six months to go, Twitter decides to have a cull of top Democrat accounts including the president. @POTUS still exists but is heavily censored. They give some bullshit cover reason which doesn't fly at all, but it doesn't matter.

Boden isn't silenced but this massively reduces the reach of his messages. He uses all other platforms but the election is swung towards the Republicans. Being that it seems US elections are pretty tight these days, it doesn't take much to change swing voters minds, and all they see if Republican messages.

Do we want that sort of power in the hands of a private company?

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miro_o in reply to @Bainbridge

Twitter is essentially realtime brain farts. See it for what it is.

Far more insidious is the effect of (for example) ownership of the Washington Post.

But let’s get real, media ownership is a tangential discussion when your watching the spark of a civil war.

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Bainbridge in reply to @miro_o

I agree for most users, but not for the President of the USA when he uses it for hiring and firing or announcing policy decisions. He's even used it to 'negotiate' with North Korea.

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