Private corporations have a single motivation - profit!
Please don't feel good about Trump ban on privately held social media. I hope we've not entered the times when Twitter or Zucker are the custodians of free speech or human rights.

@h_tejas @prasoon The ban is a good thing precisely for the reason you give: private companies should not control who gets to interact with a public servant. Twitter *should* be out of the loop. social.privacytools.io/@resist

@prasoon @h_tejas Before the ban on , I could not microblog to Trump because banned me. Now if Trump goes to a federated platform I have a chance to send him my criticisms.

@resist1984 @h_tejas
1. Any and all social media, even federated, community owned ones are at best recommendation engines and often just propaganda machine.
2. The Internet is a pubic utility, not social media.
3. The State should use open protocols to communicate with the citizens (even state owned products would easily fail to address diverse accessibility issues and they often do)...

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@prasoon @h_tejas 1 is pointless. Of course any communication mechanism can carry propaganda. 2. Social media can be a public or private utility depending on how it's deployed. 3. true

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