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It should be illegal for companies like Twitter to forbid this. Users should be free to access their data, and free to use any tool to do so. The revered network effect is anti consumer and it must be broken.

This is the one regulation that could save a nation from FB, Twitter, Instagram and their ilk. Any politician to run on this could shoot somebody in the middle of a crowded street without losing my support.

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> Any politician to run on this could shoot somebody in the middle of a crowded street without losing my support.

That might be a bit overdone, but I get your point.

I'd say it entirely depends on who they're shooting.

It's a reference to a statement the current president made during his campaign.

Its an (in)famous Trump line.

The one regulation that could save a nation from FB, Twitter and Instagram is to ban advertising. All of it. Ban all advertising anywhere for any reason.

You may not advertise this proposed regulation.

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