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Anyone have any thoughts on turning Twitter into a publicly funded utility? It's fraught with difficulties, and maybe unconstitutional, but as you say Twitter i
by coldpie 10y ago
Anyone have any thoughts on turning Twitter into a publicly funded utility? It's fraught with difficulties, and maybe unconstitutional, but as you say Twitter is an extremely powerful tool and it would be a tragedy to lose it just because it can't find a way to extract money from its users.
- anigbrowl 10y agoPublic funding would be massively problematic (especially in this political climate), but I agree about wanting to conserve the utility even if it's not a good way to make money. I'm surprised that a distributed open alternative hasn't appeared by now.
- wott 10y agoGNU social, and others.
- tigershark 10y agoAre you really asking to get money from the taxes that everyone pays for a dubious utility service as twitter? If you really enjoy it finance it with your money. I already finance organisations that are much more worth my money than a glorified newsletter. It's a sad world in which we are living. If I had a twitter account probably I should have tweeted my really deep analysis in 140 chars. Wait for it.
- coldpie 10y ago> Are you really asking to get money from the taxes that everyone pays for a dubious utility service as twitter? No. I was proposing a thought experiment. Chill out, dude.
- tigershark 10y agoAre you really asking to get money from the taxes that everyone pays for a dubious utility service as twitter? If you really enjoy it finance it with your money. I already finance organisations that are much more worth my money than a glorified newsletter. It's a sad world in which we are living. If I had a twitter account probably I should have tweeted my really deep analysis in 140 chars. Wait for it.