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Re:Twitter co-founder: I’m sorry if we made Trump’s presiden... by ManlyBread on Monday May 22, 2017 @08:10AM (#14392888)
Who gets to decide whether someone's option falls under these categories? Anyone who is put in charge of classifying such things will have a lot of power that can easily be mismanaged.

Furthermore, for what reason would you trust such a person?

If you already distrust Trump will you trust him more if some nameless moderator will decide which posts are okay and which aren't?

Besides, he's the POTUS and he has a lot of money, if twitter will start messing with his posts he can easily set up a service on his own.

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Re:Twitter co-founder: I’m sorry if we made Trump’s presiden... by scruple on Monday May 22, 2017 @10:37AM (#14393904)
> Who gets to decide whether someone's option falls under these categories? Anyone who is put in charge of classifying such things will have a lot of power that can easily be mismanaged.

And will also be selectively enforced, as we've seen on basically every single social media platform today.

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