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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by MuffinFlavored on Thursday April 14, 2022 @04:53PM (#31033141)
Washington Post can control what is posted through journalists, etc. (digital or not)

Twitter is like... an aggregator of a bunch of people tweeting. The people tweeting aren't being paid by Twitter to tweet (like journalists are for Washington Post, even if it's like $75 for an opinion piece/basically blogspam)

I feel like that's a pretty big difference?

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by jkukul on Thursday April 14, 2022 @05:04PM (#31033277)
Twitter can control what who can post and who cannot (remember Donald J Trump being banned?).

Twitter can control what is being read by deciding what is promoted by their algorithms and what gets buried down.

These are just few examples. We can't pretend that Twitter is a fully decentralised service and that there's no one pulling the strings.

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