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Yet they are. Twitter is where a significant percentage of political discourse happens. It bring privately owned doesn't alter it's role in US democracy.

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No, they're not. They're resources operated by a private company. They're not public property, nor are they regulated as a utility.

Wishing it were true doesn't make it that way.

Nobody is saying Twitter is publicly owned. You didn't read the comment you replied to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25024261

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