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Given that his entire [claimed] rationale is “restoring free speech in America” you can scratch countries 2-6 off that list.
by Doctor_Fegg 4y ago
Given that his entire [claimed] rationale is “restoring free speech in America” you can scratch countries 2-6 off that list.
- mnd999 4y agoThe rationale is to control the narrative and align Twitter’s politics with his own. It’s just like the hundred other rich dudes who bought newspapers over the years.
- Doctor_Fegg 4y agoSure. I should have said “claimed rationale”.
- Lutger 4y agoTrying to be the new Rupert Murdoch, but failing.
- concordDance 4y agoAdmittedly there being a big right wing social media would be an interesting change. Curious to see how it goes (from a distance as I don't use twitter).
- _djo_ 4y agoTwitter was that big right wing social media site, in that it was extremely useful for a large number of right wing organisations and people to amplify their messaging and get many followers. That's what made it far more attractive to those on the right than Parler, Truth Social, Gettr, and all the others. For instance Trump owed much of his popularity to his Twitter account and the way it allowed him to communicate much more effectively in a completely unfiltered way with both his existing supporters and undecided potentials. The same pattern has repeated with right wing politicians in other countries. Those who were banned or otherwise de-amplified tended to be very fringe or extreme, and were never a significant chunk of the right wing. That's one reason why the alternatives never took off, as the kinds of people they attracted were those that few people really wanted to deal with or associate with.
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