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> the authority of Western newspapers was forever reduced. Nope. Twitter's was expanded. These are not the same thing. > China has its Great Firewall and Russ

> the authority of Western newspapers was forever reduced. Nope. Twitter's was expanded. These are not the same thing. > China has its Great Firewall and Russia has its “Internet Iron Curtain.” But democracies differ only in how quickly, and under what narratives, they adopt similar measures. because we say so (I guess they forgot to add this last bit)

pdonis 6y ago
> Twitter's was expanded. I'm not sure that's actually true. Twitter did not stop the spreading of the information it suppressed (the author of this article knew perfectly well what that information was, after all). It just made people route around Twitter to get the information. The more people realize that they need to route around Twitter to get the information they want (just as they now route around traditional journalists to get the information they want), the more Twitter's authority is reduced just as the authority of traditional journalists was reduced. I think the author of the article has not sufficiently considered this aspect.
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- notJim 6y ago
  > I think the author of the article has not sufficiently considered this aspect. I agree, but are we talking about this because it's the first time it's happened for such a high profile story in the US? Will we still be talking about it the third or fourth time it happens?
  - input_sh 6y ago
    No, because their own policy team said that they've made a mistake on how they've handled it and that they have no plans to do that in the future: https://mobile.twitter.com/vijaya/status/1316923557268652033 https://mobile.twitter.com/vijaya/status/1316923557268652033
    - sieabahlpark 6y ago
      Then stop enforcing it? They're clearly not sorry because the NYP is still blocked.