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This quote is indeed the heart of the argument and is indeed dumb. Citation or no, calling Twitter a monopolist of the public square is absurd, when it is used
by evrydayhustling 4y ago
This quote is indeed the heart of the argument and is indeed dumb. Citation or no, calling Twitter a monopolist of the public square is absurd, when it is used by less than 1/4 of American adults and occupies only a fraction of their attention. And if it is a monopoly, the antitrust solution is to break it up, not to solve one specific complaint about it by forcing it (and it's employees) into specific performance they disagree with.
Twitter's not special, it's just a useful platform that a few people would love to force into broadcast their messages.
- cudgy 4y ago> calling Twitter a monopolist of the public square is absurd, when it is used by less than 1/4 of American adults and occupies only a fraction of their attention. Monopolies are not determined by simply referring to their affect upon the entire population. It is determined by their affect on consumers of that monopoly, which is a subset of the population. Therefore, it should be compared to the number of people that want to use platforms like Twitter to express opinions.