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Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by TheAdamAndChe on Monday December 18, 2017 @05:19PM (#15956038)
> use of twitter is not a necessity

This is arguable. Our country is changing massively, and because of the network effect[1], social media platforms condense to only a few winners, currently mostly Facebook and Twitter I believe. This oligopoly[2] means that a handful of sites basically run what is considered the internet for most people.

In America, we have a constitutional right to free speech. If in our country, most people speak solely on one of these sites, then why shouldn't our constitutional rights extend onto them?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly

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Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by root_axis on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @03:49PM (#15964124)
It is not arguable, it is an unequivocal fact that use of twitter is not necessary.

> that a handful of sites basically run what is considered the internet for most people.

That is the result of individual choices made by those people. That's like lamenting that a handful of musicians basically produce what is considered music for most people... So what?

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