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To your point number 2: perhaps part of the reason why Twitter is the town square is because it is not super profitable. If it was as chock full of ads as Faceb
by IgorPartola 4y ago
To your point number 2: perhaps part of the reason why Twitter is the town square is because it is not super profitable. If it was as chock full of ads as Facebook I think it would cease to be usable.
In reality if we want a public square, we ideally want it to be a public utility not a for profit corporation.
- skilled 4y agoThe irony being that the public square at large is a disease of the people and not the consequence of a specific platform.
- fleddr 4y agoI'm not sure if that really is the reason. I do agree though that Twitter's ads are hilariously irrelevant. I would absolutely not want a social network to be ran by any government, no thanks.
- IgorPartola 4y agoCorporation or government is not the only choice. It could be a non-profit. It could be a protocol. It could be run by universities or public libraries.
- Eisenstein 4y agoPeople fail to see that 'the government' running something important to the public does not have to operate as if it were the DMV. Publicly funded can mean many different things.
- IgorPartola 4y agoAgreed.