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> You aren't "owed" a free Twitter account solely on your own personal terms. It's funny that all those companies are trying to get so big and so central to ou
by throw6746 5y ago
> You aren't "owed" a free Twitter account solely on your own personal terms.
It's funny that all those companies are trying to get so big and so central to our lives, to the point many news (including from police precincts or first responders) are only posted on twitter or fb, yet when you point out they shouldn't ask you a phone number to access them it's "they owe you nothing".
- swader999 5y agoIf they have a monopoly on the public square, arguments could be made...
- int_19h 5y ago... to break them up?
- swader999 5y agoPlay nicer as a start.
- JadeNB 5y agoThere should not be a channel for government communications that is only available upon giving money or information to a private party. (But that's a ship that sailed long before the internet age. "Want to know the laws? Pay up!")
- riffic 5y agotalk to your electeds about regulation then. Public sector and publicly funded groups should be communicating through standards-based channels. Their content belongs to the digital commons. This exists today, via the ActivityPub and RSS sphere of ecosystems.
- leephillips 5y agoBut you can’t blame that on Twitter, no matter how much they welcome it and how evil they are. Blame it on unspeakably bad judgement on the part of government employees. Making Twitter the conduit for official communications? I can’t even fathom the mindset.