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Charging for access is at odds with the idea of a public town square. On the other hand, I can't help but feel that this will raise the level of discourse. Folk
by Zanni 3y ago
Charging for access is at odds with the idea of a public town square. On the other hand, I can't help but feel that this will raise the level of discourse. Folks like the idea of free public speech, but then it inevitably becomes (in actual, physical town squares) overrun with religious fundamentalists, political zealots and marketers. What people actually want is a salon.
- singleshot_ 3y agoThat’s okay, because there is no way anyone could mistake Twitter or any noncorporeal, private, online, TOS-limited, private property, coherent speech product, that was not taking on any role traditionally the province of the government for a public square. Charging admission won’t confuse anyone who was not already deeply misinformed.
- amenhotep 3y agoMy feeling from what attention I've paid to twitter recently is that the class of users corresponding roughly to religious fundamentalists, zealots and marketers seem quite happy to pay $8 a month.