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Re:Twitter allegedly deleting negative tweets about United A... by JackFr on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @10:36AM (#14088167)
How about you spend billions of dollars growing a network, and I tell you what to do with it?

(That being said, IMHO, this is truly shortsighted means to collect a couple of bucks today, and a good way to diminish the value of the network over the long term.)

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Re:Twitter allegedly deleting negative tweets about United A... by dilap on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @10:59AM (#14088450)
I don't think it's unreasonable to compel companies to behave in certain ways using the law, especially very large and influential companies.

Competition & the market is all well and good, but it's not a panacea. It's very easy to reach a "local minimum" where there are globally bad things happened that cannot be remedied by competition, because it's too expensive/hard/impossible for a competitor to come into existence.

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