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If they want to reach their citizens it makes sense to post on the big platforms

• mcsniff 3y ago
  Who's citizens (or subjects some might say) are they really, if congregation and discourse isn't happening on public "property" (in the digital sense of the word)?
  • mousetree 3y ago
    I'm still a German citizen even if I use the internet
  • SllX 3y ago
    Facebook might have several billion users but it will never be a sovereign nation and even if they were to start calling their users “citizens” tomorrow, it would hold no weight under any internationally recognized standard or the laws of nations. Sovereign nations and corporations are entirely different types of entity with virtually no overlap in real power, so you’re just muddying the waters to even imply otherwise. Even historically powerful corporations like the British East India Company found the basis for their authority in a nation which eventually revoked their authority, assumed its debts and obligations, and took possession of their armed forces, equipment, claimed lands and authority and disestablished the corporation.