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Its certainly a town square, just because you have your own little tavern/forum doesn't mean the town square isn't the town square.
by nmz 4y ago
Its certainly a town square, just because you have your own little tavern/forum doesn't mean the town square isn't the town square.
- streb-lo 4y agoA town square is usually a public project, maintained by the city on behalf of taxpayers. This is more like a big private club.
- yamtaddle 4y agoTwitter is those public-use bulletin boards at the entrances of grocery stores. (are those still a thing? Practically every store of any size had one in the 90s, at least, but I haven't paid attention and can't for-sure recall seeing one in years)
- cyberphobe 4y agoThis is like a big private club that allows anyone to enter and has effectively taken the place of a town square, due to (among other things) lack of such a public project. It ought to be owned by the government, but we've privatized it.
- timeon 4y agoWhat Twitter is an tries to be is pseudo-public space. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/04/pops-privately-owned-public-space-cities-direct-action https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/04/pops-privatel... https://www.theguardian.com/cities/privately-owned-public-space-pops https://www.theguardian.com/cities/privately-owned-public-sp...
- chomp 4y agoIt isn't a town square - a town square is public. Twitter is a private organization. In this case, Twitter is the tavern. The Internet is the town square.