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> Otherwise Twitter is interfering in foreign diplomacy and governments, be they legal, illegal, authoritarian or democratic. This is giving Twitter way too mu
by AlexandrB 6y ago
> Otherwise Twitter is interfering in foreign diplomacy and governments, be they legal, illegal, authoritarian or democratic.
This is giving Twitter way too much credit (and too much power). When did a stupid 280chr “microblogging” platform become a channel for foreign diplomacy? To make an absurd comparison, should we consider the politics subreddit a diplomatic venue too?
- joshuakelly 6y ago> When did a stupid 280chr “microblogging” platform become a channel for foreign diplomacy? Approximately in 2009. That's the date of the first known public example of the State Department influencing Twitter operations for diplomatic purposes. In that case, it was to lobby Twitter to delay a scheduled shutdown because of events happening in Iran. > To make an absurd comparison, should we consider the politics subreddit a diplomatic venue too? Any highly trafficked site co-ordinated and administered in the United States is, yes.
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