Twitter was never the "town square". No single website, no matter how popular, has any realistic hope of being a "town square" short of maybe something owned b

Twitter was never the "town square". No single website, no matter how popular, has any realistic hope of being a "town square" short of maybe something owned by the UN or something. A website is, at best, a corkboard on the wall of some private business or domicile - and while some of those corkboards might be big and relatively lax in who can post what on them, at the end of the day someone owns it and will use that ownership to control what's conveyed on it. The actual "town square" is the Internet itself, and every effort should be made to ensure it stays that way.