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While I personally feel that Twitter taking down this service is a shame, and yet another sign of how reliance on these private companies for expression of free
by girvo 11y ago
While I personally feel that Twitter taking down this service is a shame, and yet another sign of how reliance on these private companies for expression of free speech is never going to work, tptacek is right. When it comes down to it, Twitter as a private company is completely allowed to do this, and in fact it is in their interest to do so; these services harm Twitter as a whole, despite being (in my opinion) a net good for society. Of course Twitter would act in it's own interests here.
- themartorana 11y agoThere's a lot that is legal that is morally reprehensible. Like bringing the world to the brink of financial collapse and then having governments bail out the institutions responsible while absolutely no one went to jail for the crime. Sure Twitter is allowed to do this. It has nothing to do with whether the attempt to alter (or delete) history is morally reprehensible or not.