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Because there needs to be a cutoff in determining when it becomes a "public" square.

• MonkeyMalarky 4y ago
  I just googled it and found that "With so many “small towns,” the average local jurisdiction population in the United States is 6,200." why not use that as the limit?
  • cdash 4y ago
    I'm not really interested in what the number is, there are going to be an infinite number of opinions on that but regardless there has to be some number defined. In this case, these are platforms that don't target a local community specifically, so it does make some amount of sense that the number is based on the population as a whole.
    • dane-pgp 4y ago
      > the number is based on the population as a whole. One way to look at this is to consider that the 2016 popular vote difference between Trump and Clinton was 2,868,686 which means if your platform can change the votes of 3 million people then it can change the results of the biggest election (even if the bias of the electoral college were removed). Of course that's begging the question, but it's not hard to imagine that on a site with 50 million active users, the most susceptible 10% could have their voting decision change based on the world they see and the arguments they read through social media. This also assumes that there is an imbalance in terms of which side does more "influencing", or which sorts of arguments it is easier to convince susceptible people into believing.
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