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Re:Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conve... by streb-lo on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @02:23PM (#33806157)
A town square is usually a public project, maintained by the city on behalf of taxpayers.

This is more like a big private club.

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Re:Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conve... by yamtaddle on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @02:39PM (#33806432)
Twitter is those public-use bulletin boards at the entrances of grocery stores.

(are those still a thing? Practically every store of any size had one in the 90s, at least, but I haven't paid attention and can't for-sure recall seeing one in years)

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Re:Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conve... by cyberphobe on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @03:01PM (#33806772)
This is like a big private club that allows anyone to enter and has effectively taken the place of a town square, due to (among other things) lack of such a public project. It ought to be owned by the government, but we've privatized it.
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Re:Twitter 2.0: Our continued commitment to the public conve... by timeon on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @06:48PM (#33809810)
What Twitter is an tries to be is pseudo-public space.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/04/pops-privatel...

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/privately-owned-public-sp...

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