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>Personally I don't think this acquisition is healthy for a democracy, but nonetheless, it's something I want to observe. This is an interesting point, curious
by incomingpain 4y ago
>Personally I don't think this acquisition is healthy for a democracy, but nonetheless, it's something I want to observe.
This is an interesting point, curious if you could elaborate how you see elontwitter as unhealthy to democracy.
Twitter has no impact on the democratic institutions or function of the politicians. In fact, national security ensures the function of the elected politicians to continue. The only day twitter's influence can do anything to influence the democracy is election day.
The only thing that is unhealthy to a democracy on election day is anything which makes the election unfair. It's not twitter boarding up windows while the vote is being counted. Twitter does have impact on how people vote.
It's the politician and journalist's jobs to ensure the people are educated and know how to vote. This is where twitter comes in. Their current censorship of only 1 side of politics was an effective way to ensuring people didn't know how to vote. Resulting in a measurable boost to the given team. This is the unhealthiness. This is what elon at least claims he plans to fix. So to me, elon buying twitter is potentially going to be better for democracy.