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• davidw 5y ago
  Where do you draw the line? Honest question. I think this is an interesting topic, as so much is online these days. These are companies, not the government, so they should have some more leeway... but given their size, it's also kind of scary. What if someone with a lot of money buys, say, Twitter and clamps down on all right of center, or left of center or whatever content? It's also incredibly easy to spread pure garbage with social media. Debunking it takes real work. I am going to a funeral in a few hours for an unvaccinated friend who died of COVID.
  • meltedcapacitor 5y ago
    Someone buying Twitter and banning a whole (normalish) category would be wonderful: it would make space for alternative platforms. As it is everybody is too lazy to fight the network effect. Maybe regulators should force dominant platforms to kick out a section of their user base every so often to keep the ecosystem diversified.