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Re:Twitter begins hiring to comply with India’s new rules by warkdarrior on Friday July 09, 2021 @12:56AM (#27780586)
> > So there's some popularity point where after people use a platform to talk enough times, the platform is no longer allowed to moderate the speech on it? Why?

> Yes, see monopoly.

It's not clear that a large platform is automatically a monopoly. For example, Twitter, Facebook, WeChat, and TikTok coexist.

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Re:Twitter begins hiring to comply with India’s new rules by lugged on Friday July 09, 2021 @11:05AM (#27784429)
So instead of acknowledging the argument you want to focus on a generalized use of the word monopoly.

Replace it with "Megacorp" and you have the same argument.

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