Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
by leephillips on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:46PM
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But you can’t blame that on Twitter, no matter how much they welcome it and how evil they are. Blame it on unspeakably bad judgement on the part of government employees. Making Twitter the conduit for official communications? I can’t even fathom the mindset.
Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
by swader999 on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:46PM
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If they have a monopoly on the public square, arguments could be made...
Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
by JadeNB on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:56PM
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There should not be a channel for government communications that is only available upon giving money or information to a private party.
(But that's a ship that sailed long before the internet age. "Want to know the laws? Pay up!")
Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
by riffic on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:19PM
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talk to your electeds about regulation then.
Public sector and publicly funded groups should be communicating through standards-based channels. Their content belongs to the digital commons. This exists today, via the ActivityPub and RSS sphere of ecosystems.
It's funny that all those companies are trying to get so big and so central to our lives, to the point many news (including from police precincts or first responders) are only posted on twitter or fb, yet when you point out they shouldn't ask you a phone number to access them it's "they owe you nothing".