Posted: 18 March 2019 at 3:33pm | IP Logged | 11
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Peter,
Gimme a break.
If Twitter goes out of business will you cry "no, no, this constrains our freedom of speech"?
People get banned from Twitter. It's a private corporation. It can do that. Does that hurt their freedom of speech?
You make me sound a like a totalitarian. Come the f*ck on, man... you've got your freedom of speech right here, unless JB bans you for some reason. And even that doesn't hurt your freedom of speech -- you can go on Medium and tell a Bad Byrne Story.
And "cripple the Internet"? How is that even possible? The Internet existed before social media -- I'm sure it could exist without it.
I think Twitter, like much social media, is poisonous -- it encourages people to be awful towards each other. And it's a great way to spread disinformation. Exhibit A: virtually anything Trump tweets. It's...how to say this...bad for America.
Trump's head would explode if Twitter died. Reason enough to treat it like asbestos and kick it to the curb.
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