Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
by mint2 on Thursday April 14, 2022 @10:58AM
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That doesn’t follow. In an illiberal country they’ll just ban any large platform that allows anything. How would free speech absolutism on a platform or in some other country have any impact on a state like that?
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
by inglor_cz on Thursday April 14, 2022 @01:20PM
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Banning a platform outright isn't as easy. Some countries like Russia are absolutely willing to do that, but a lot of smaller illiberal countries still need to curry favours with their own population and banning a popular platform will cause some unrest.
For example, Turkey banned and unbanned Facebook several times.