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A comment on Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders who break rules. Parent comment

Re:Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders wh... by jammygit on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @01:57AM (#21267470)
We have a situation where a platform is able to coerce world leaders into behaving. That is a scary amount of centralization
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Re:Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders wh... by pennaMan on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @02:08AM (#21267539)
How is that centralization? Is twitter the only platform for politicians to talk to the internet?

And a funny thought just popped: Calling a person a "world leader" - that's scary centralization right there.

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Re:Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders wh... by qtplatypus on Thursday October 17, 2019 @02:00AM (#21279313)
Personally I've read "world leader" in this context as meaning "leader who acts at a world level". Like neither Trump nor Putin the leaders of the entire world but they are not equal to the Mayor of Sidney BC.
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