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Lol. Kneecapping competitors is what billionaires do. You dont win capitalism by following all the rules.

• koonsolo 4y ago
  How many users will stay on Twitter because of this? And how many will leave because of it? My guess: it's an extra indication that Twitter is not a reliable platform to build an audience. Billionaires are billionaires because they build a product that everybody wants.
  • JKCalhoun 4y ago
    > Billionaires are billionaires because they build a product that everybody wants. That's a pretty wild claim.
  • sandworm101 4y ago
    Twitter and "reliable"? Was that ever really a thing?
    • ethanbond 4y ago
      Yes? That’s why you have entire media businesses built on top of it.
• koheripbal 4y ago
  It's what all people do when they have the ability.
  • sandworm101 4y ago
    Maybe the Machiavellian among us. The average person or company doesn't pull literally every lever of power to defeat competitors out of principal. When someone stole the coke recipe and tried to sell it to Pepsi, Pepsi called the cops. When the power goes out, power companies work together to get it back... Except Enron, which is now dead.
  • ethanbond 4y ago
    Which is why people who have an ounce of foresight and self-awareness build systems around themselves that mitigate their worst instincts. This is the fatal flaw for every tyrant. They see the mitigation system as a problem rather than a solution, then their worst instincts get the best of them.
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