> But Twitter is/was not a utility
The way twitter was used by local governments during emergencies absolutely made it equivalent to one.
Fortunately at least my area has moved away from twitter and towards SMS based notifications for that purpose.
The way twitter was used by local governments during emergencies absolutely made it equivalent to one.
Fortunately at least my area has moved away from twitter and towards SMS based notifications for that purpose.
those governments should be held responsible rather than giving Twitter a free ticket to calling itself a utility.
I'd personally love to see the government build a lot of frameworks that can be considered "public goods" and be less reliant on private entities who must generate a profit. I happily pay taxes to serve many networks which operate as natural monopolies, such as roads. I'd also be happy to have that extended to such things as telecommunications. I'd happily pay more taxes if it got rid of my phone bill or internet bill. Though I'd say that personally this is conditioned on them being E2EE and privacy focused, since I consider that information having a higher potential for abuse in a single governmental entity than distributed among corporate powers (even if they still want to abuse it, they can do less and there are competitors).