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To think that your personal transactionality with Twitter, whether you pay for your SLAs or DMs etc, is what matters here is myopic at best. Because this soapbo
by acituan 6y ago
To think that your personal transactionality with Twitter, whether you pay for your SLAs or DMs etc, is what matters here is myopic at best. Because this soapbox found itself to be used at planet scale, 24/7 available and proven to be increasingly influential, even consequential, on our institutions that depend on healthy public discourse. Not only your analogy doesn’t follow, trying to apply market based normativities on problems of democratic processes is very misleading.
- petee 6y ago'planet-scale soapbox' is an even better argument for them to be limited in what they allow... just because they found themselves popular doesn't suddenly make them a public utility
- acituan 6y agoIf it turns out monopolies of market-based high-throughput public communication channels put societies in a tailspin and render democratic processes highly vulnerable to information warfare, I don’t care whether we call it a public utility or a soapbox, it is a collective liability and we would ignore it at our own peril.