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Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue by gretch on Friday May 28, 2021 @02:41PM (#27319017)
It's not the same thing because you can simply just choose not to go to twitter. That's not possible with sound waves at the town square.

If we all agreed that twitter was trash and we all just stop going, then it's over - that village idiot has no power.

I've stopped. Presumably you stopped too. If you are still going, maybe you're the idiot?

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Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue by mbesto on Saturday May 29, 2021 @02:53PM (#27327401)
> It's not the same thing

Personification != same thing. I think you missed the point.

> That's not possible with sound waves at the town square.

Huh? I can simply not go into the town square.

> If we all agreed that twitter was trash and we all just stop going, then it's over - that village idiot has no power.

Exactly. but there are enough people benefitting from Twitter that they simply don't care that the village idiot has power (or they are the village idiot themselves).

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