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. https://social.privacytools.io/@resist1984/105526982055281931
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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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4. Twitter didn't ban hate from their platform, just a person who has now lost power to another person.
5. The ban is not good or bad, it should be irrelevant. It's a private entity that's been awarded the privilege to exist and profit its shareholders and a few employees.
@prasoon @h_tejas 4. twtr didn't ban /all/ hate, but it banned /some/ hate by blocking Trump. 5. The ban is a win for free speech. TWTR banned me & others, who could not microblog to our representitive. The ban pushes Trump onto another platform which could potentially be publicly accessible (unlike the private walled garden of twtr)
