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Re:Twitter's Dorsey Rallies Staff Around Independent Strateg... by golemotron on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:21PM (#12685833)
> There's a lesson for us here somewhere. Twitter undeniably provides value that is impossibly difficult to quantify by any widely-used economic metric (e.g. share price). It remains a platform where millions of users can interact directly with influencers (or, at least, their social media teams) on a platform that is comparatively less colored by political bias than others.

This won't be taken seriously, but I propose nationalizing it. The world needs a good free speech platform and with the actual requirements of the 1st amendment in place Twitter's banning and censorship practices would have to cease. The world might learn to become more tolerant of diverse opinions and thoughts even if they are "mean."

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Re:Twitter's Dorsey Rallies Staff Around Independent Strateg... by pavlov on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:48PM (#12686102)
The alt-right wants to nationalize media outlets in the name of free speech? It's truly a bizarro world these days.

Renaming Twitter to "United States Department of Truth" would be pretty cool though.

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Re:Twitter's Dorsey Rallies Staff Around Independent Strateg... by r_smart on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:53PM (#12687433)
Now being a strong first amendment advocate is a position that puts you on the right? Nationalizing things puts you on the right? Bizarro world indeed.
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Re:Twitter's Dorsey Rallies Staff Around Independent Strateg... by pavlov on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @03:47PM (#12687922)
Free speech is not in itself a right-wing position, obviously. But the grandparent poster referenced "Twitter's banning and censorship practices", which is essentially an alt-right code phrase. Combining that starting point with a desire to nationalize a private media company makes for a very strange position.
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Re:Twitter's Dorsey Rallies Staff Around Independent Strateg... by golemotron on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @04:25PM (#12688214)
Really? I am the GP and don't like the alt-right at all. Where is the code phrase book? I'd like to take a look at it so that I don't confuse anyone else.

Fact is, Twitter has banned people selectively not only in the US but also across the world when tweets fall outside an ideological boundary or the views of the local government. As a private company, it's their right to do so but the world would be better served by a platform that guaranteed freedom of speech.

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Re:Twitter's Dorsey Rallies Staff Around Independent Strateg... by pavlov on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @06:57PM (#12689197)
I apologize for making an unwarranted assumption about you. There has been so much talk about "Twitter censorship" where it really seems to mean "Milo Yiannopoulos and Breitbart should be able to continue trolling even when their methods violate Twitter's ToS".
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