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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by lordnacho on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:12PM (#26731382)
I can agree with you, but still think there's a problem. The fact is nobody who wrote the constitution thought we'd get to a point where there was such a dominant private speech player.

So yeah, it made sense at the time, since government was the big player historically, but we're looking at a different situation now.

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by tw04 on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:26PM (#26731579)
>The fact is nobody who wrote the constitution thought we'd get to a point where there was such a dominant private speech player.

I'm quite certain that's not true. Papers in the 1700s had just as much dominance in speech as social media does today.

https://csac.history.wisc.edu/document-collections/themes-of...

I think HN has a gross overestimation of twitter's influence. There are 7.9 Billion people on the planet, and 185 million daily active twitter users. I can't say I've ever once gotten my news from twitter and don't plan on ever starting. In my social circle I've got exactly 2 people who use twitter daily.

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by concordDance on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:47PM (#26731796)
> Papers in the 1700s had just as much dominance in speech as social media does today.

The important difference is that less than a billionth of what people communicate was through those newspapers. Nowadays? Maybe half is the the internet and most of that is through the big players (e.g. Facebook).

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by lordnacho on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @08:38PM (#26733611)
Papers? Every town had several. You could reasonably rely on someone taking up your opinion.

That's quite different to having a handful of internet giants, who seem to act similarly.

It's also different to having a huge Murdoch controlled network of media a firms.

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Re:Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs... by read_if_gay_ on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @06:32PM (#26732345)
> There are 7.9 Billion people on the planet, and 185 million daily active twitter users.

Twitter is a US platform first and foremost. It doesn't make sense to compare the total number of Twitter users against the number of people on the entire planet. According to Statista:

> Social network Twitter is particularly popular in the United States, where as of January 2021, the microblogging service had audience reach of 69.3 million users

https://www.statista.com/statistics/242606/number-of-active-...

That is about a quarter of the US population. Your 185/7900 figure is off by an order of magnitude.

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