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> Consumers of social don’t have much freedom of choice. If consumers don’t like what Musk does with Twitter, they cannot simply switch to another Twitter-like
by bko 5y ago
> Consumers of social don’t have much freedom of choice. If consumers don’t like what Musk does with Twitter, they cannot simply switch to another Twitter-like platform. There aren’t any. The largest social media platforms have grown gigantic because anyone who wants to participate in them and influence debate has to join them. After they reach a certain size, they’re the only megaphone in town. Where else would consumers go to post short messages that can reach tens of millions of people other than Twitter?
Of course they can switch to Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, which all have more or less the same policies. For instance when a news article gets banned on FB, it'll likely get banned on every other social media and maybe even private messaging apps. Except now Twitter may be an outlier in not banning something. They all had essentially the same policies and now that may change and one social media will be relatively more free. Why is this bad?