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Re:Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is... by laughinghan on Monday August 19, 2019 @03:01PM (#20740701)
it's also worrisome that a single company has the power to shut down an entire government trying to spread its ideas

To be clear, that's not what Twitter is doing. They specifically state:

"Affected media entities are free to continue to use their Twitter account(s) to organically participate in public conversation"

What they're doing is blocking paid ads by governments and deceptive practices by everyone. But they're fine with governments spreading their ideas on Twitter the old-fashioned way, by tweeting things under their own name and getting lots of likes/retweets.

And, obviously, Twitter has no power whatsoever to shut down governments spreading their ideas the old-fashioned way off of Twitter.

Re:Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is... by jfnixon on Monday August 19, 2019 @11:21PM (#20743568)
By the old-fashioned way on twitter, don't you mean "running ginormous bot-farms tweeting propaganda?" Because I doubt the PRC will be restrained to simply posting tweets under the bluecheck PRC account.
Re:Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is... by laughinghan on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @07:12PM (#20753193)
Huh? I'm sure PRC will try to do that, but Twitter won't be fine with it. Twitter will try to stop them, as described in the original article.