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Re:Cory Doctorow: Platform Capitalism and the Curse of “Ensh... by sanderjd on Thursday July 06, 2023 @09:15AM (#36615245)
The government can afford to do this. In every single other way, this is a terrible idea.
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Re:Cory Doctorow: Platform Capitalism and the Curse of “Ensh... by hef19898 on Thursday July 06, 2023 @09:26AM (#36615404)
Why? At least in the case of democratic governmwnts, there is more control and oversight than there is in case of Meta, Twitter or Google.
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Re:Cory Doctorow: Platform Capitalism and the Curse of “Ensh... by sanderjd on Thursday July 06, 2023 @09:49AM (#36615712)
Just went into more detail on this in a different comment. Basically I think this would suck in the same ways that public meetings inevitably suck, but times a million.
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