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The US govt. shouldn't be using some third party tool to communicate with its citizens. Post a blog on usa.gov and say whatever you want, problem solved.
by pupppet 7y ago
The US govt. shouldn't be using some third party tool to communicate with its citizens. Post a blog on usa.gov and say whatever you want, problem solved.
- kemitche 7y agoDoes that solve anything though? Surely any such blog posts would get shared on Twitter, by some combination of official, unofficial, and civilian accounts.
- nabergh 7y agoIt does. Government announcements would still be available online if they were originally posted on a government website and their reposted content was removed from Twitter afterwards. It would be harder to make the case that Twitter is preventing citizens from viewing their governments' announcements if those announcements are also available on government websites, which I believe is the primary concern.
- busterarm 7y agoPoliticians are only on Twitter because that's where the media is. Journalists overwhelmingly use twitter to conduct business these days. Politicians interacting with journalists is nothing new.
- jonas21 7y agoThe White House [1], and just about every US government department and agency (e.g. [2], [3], [4]) already has a blog. The fact that most people are unaware they exist is precisely why they also post to third-party platforms. [1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/ [2] https://www.energy.gov/news-blog https://www.energy.gov/news-blog [3] https://www.usda.gov/media/blog https://www.usda.gov/media/blog [4] https://blogs.nasa.gov/ https://blogs.nasa.gov/