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Re:Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders wh... by thaumasiotes on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @01:20AM (#21267299)
> Dominance is irrelevant, and a law based on that would be completely unreasonable.

There are quite a few laws in the US that give special legal privileges to some construction such as "the top two political parties" or similar. For example, specifying that a committee's membership be composed of 1/3 one of the top two parties, 1/3 the other of the top two parties, and 1/3 unaffiliated. Or 1/2 one of the top two parties and 1/2 the other one.

You're absolutely correct that this is completely unreasonable, but it's also common as dirt.

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Re:Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders wh... by coldtea on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @04:58AM (#21268388)
How is it "unreasonable"?

At best, it's a matter of judgement of what's desired socially.

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Re:Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders wh... by thaumasiotes on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @04:06PM (#21274886)
It is a way to stealthily enforce the two-party system against the future. It's not much different than explicitly giving the same special legal privileges to "the Democratic Party" and "the Republican Party", except that it is less likely to outrage people.
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