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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by bzb6 on Friday December 18, 2020 @04:14AM (#25465282)
How do you “naturally deserve” to access the contents of the Twitter website?
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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by devmor on Friday December 18, 2020 @10:13AM (#25467832)
Since it became a dissemination service for public officials. The moment it became illegal for the US President to block people on Twitter, it should have become illegal for Twitter to restrict access to information to the public, for the same reason.
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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by morsch on Friday December 18, 2020 @05:13AM (#25465657)
I agree, that's just cruel. No one deserves being subjected to Twitter.
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