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Twitter needs to stop or be stopped. Censorship belongs to the government, not private institutions. Let the government pass legislation instructing Twitter about which speech is allowed. The government, at least in the US, is accountable to the people, but Twitter like other authoritarian regimes is accountable only to themselves.

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So you want a more authoritarian government to clamp down on what businesses can and cannot do? Seems contrary to the freedom everyone on this website seems to be enamoured with. I’d expect private enterprises (emphasis on the word private) to be able to do just about whatever they want with their businesses in a “free” system.

No, I want the public square to be operated by and for the public. Twitter is squatting on the public cyberspace and I think it’s about time that the government stepped in and told them that if they want to monetize free speech, that they have to uphold free speech and cannot manipulate the environment unilaterally.

I know that “public cyberspace” is a weird phrase and hard to parse. I’m referring to the graph of communications between citizens of a country and between countries. In the US, this is a protected space, protected by our Constitution.

So far, all laws around censorship are that it is up to private individuals which ideas they want to promote, and which ones they don't.

Antitrust is a much better direction to tackle this kind of issue through. Twitter needs to be one way of seeing the underlying data, rather than having a monopoly on it.

Antitrust. Yeah, but we haven’t practiced antitrust in this country for a long time.

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