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I don't see Twitter as a digital town square. I also don't see town squares as being a shouting arena.
by oneplane 4y ago
I don't see Twitter as a digital town square. I also don't see town squares as being a shouting arena.
- Karunamon 4y agoIt is enough of a digital town square that politicians from local all the way to federal make proclamations on it, as well as there being legal precedent prohibiting politicians from blocking their constituents.
- bjustin 4y agoTo add more details, the legal precedent on this only says government accounts' posts and account pages are their own public-square-type place, not the entire Twitter service. Personal accounts when used for government-like purposes by government officials count too.
- oneplane 4y agoFederal what? The Russian federation? Also, why are people constantly attempting to compare a website to a square in a town? (for those not reading between the lines: most of the world doesn't live in the US, and most of the world also doesn't assign special privilege to town squares, digital or otherwise)
- Karunamon 4y agoThe last bit of the second paragraph would of been a fine comment on its own without the snark. That aside; this is an American website discussing an article about an American company having a ruling made against them by an American organization based on actions they took in America. I don't think the rest of the world is relevant to this discussion, and I don't think you do either.
- xattt 4y agoTwitter is a mall. You can get kicked out of a mall and not be allowed back in.
- oneplane 4y agoI think of twitter as being a communal ball pit.
- fomine3 4y agoMetaphors considered harmful.