I really don't think most people are shopping for "other" ideas, and they're not concerned with free speech... just hearing their own ideas echoed back. Free speech for most folks only comes up when they don't hear an echo, or even just enough of an echo.
The level of tolerance for even just hearing other ideas seems ultra low these days.
That is the bargain of politics: "give us power and we will tell what to think". For such people, Twitter is entirely sufficient. The design of twitter as a textual broadcasting platform is ideal for a unidirectional transmit/receive of ideas.
twitter openly supported these trolls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEuB_2KzobY
and twitter also supported urban naxal terrorists who are funded by china.
In fact, Urban youth are specifically targeted to spread the communist teachings of Mao Zedong.
They fund themselves through the Drug Trade, and 40% of funding for the Naxals comes through cultivation and distribution of drugs.
The Naxal movement may indeed have the characteristics that you mentioned, but you have a long way to go before establishing any links between them and dissidents who simply disagree with the current powers-that-be.
Every sentence in this is inaccurate.
Naxals are the followers of Mao, no doubt. But urban communits in general don't think highly of Mao at all. They only think of protesting and disobedience . They may have some overlapping causes.
Calling all communists as naxals is lazy and sloppy thinking.
Naxalites are a mix of goons and insurgents who loosely care about communist beliefs. They used to be most prevalent in lawless and hinterland areas,nowadays their influence is a lot less.
Source :- Briefly dated a communist.
Don't care about communism. But believe that if it has to be opposed,understand it.
But the fact is the term urban naxals is a meaningless pjeroative used against those who hold opinions different from the current Indian government.
It is even used against those who don't believe in communism at all.
The diversity of opinions on mainstream platforms is starting to resemble being in an airport where you have the choice of mcdonald's, wendy's, burger king, or taco bell if you are looking for something exotic. Sure, it appeals to everyone, except it appeals to their vices and when they don't have better choices. As soon as people can afford better, they switch. From an economics perspective, the mainstream US platforms are an "inferior good." The last 10 years of social media has been a real time spectacle of intellectual mean reversion.
I'm cheering Koo on anyway. They're going after the regional desires of hundreds of millions of people who have a country in common. The bar to creating services like this is really low, and there are so many other huge countries to serve.