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Old 01-08-2021, 09:19 PM   #84
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Big tech monopoly will eventually be a problem.

Tonight, likely for the benefit of the world, they banned trump from Twitter. Most of the time big tech does not act this way and they have an obligation to look out only for the best interests of their shareholders. But a private company just silenced the president of the United States on the biggest platform for rapidly disseminating information.

That is quite a lot of power to put in the hands of Jack Dosey.

Hopefully they are broken up standard oil style.
I agree about the monopoly thing eventually but also this

https://twitter.com/user/status/1347738335905775622

Literally every single previous president managed to not be silenced before while either not using Twitter at all or using it as a secondary or tertiary outlet.
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