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0 pointsashtonkem6y ago0 comments

No, you don’t get to declare something to be a limited public good after it gets popular.

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free_rms6y ago· 2 in thread

Twitter deserves credit for creating their platform, absolutely. They created a platform where everyday people can interact with top media and politicians.

Now that it's here, and they're all on it.. "the coffee shop can throw you out" seems a little trite. I don't like Trump either, set him aside, what if we were on the wrong side of Twitter's politics?

ashtonkemOP6y ago

I fear letting the government regulate twitter more than I fear twitter deciding my politics aren’t acceptable. I can leave Twitter, but creating a back door for the government to regulate political speech has consequences that stretch much further than Twitter itself.

free_rms6y ago

I'm not talking about the government regulating speech, I'm talking about the government regulating against Twitter deciding your politics are unacceptable. Whatever they may be. More speech.

I'd be fine with retaining Twitter's right to add commentary, as they did to Trump, as long as it's clear who's saying what.

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