I can want more competition as well as more accountability for Twitter when they choose to target specific tweets/accounts.
Facebook has for the most part stayed out of it and they are being attacked for not providing a Ministry of Truth like Twitter does.
So the little bit of competition that Twitter has is being coerced to do the same.
If Twitter continues down the route it's going and continues to publish it's thoughts and link them to other's thoughts then I think they should have their 230 protections revoked and that will probably shutter them. Good.
Hacker News should be all about breaking up monopolies and regulating companies, what gives? Ah yeah, the elections.
You're arguing that the US government should be able to force companies to publish content that it doesnt want on it's site.
> Ah yeah, the elections.
I'm not american, so i have no horse in the elections, apart from wanting twitter to continue to exist.
Twitter is a private company, it should be able to moderate its platform as it sees fit. If it see's content that it feels is dangerous, they should be completely within their right to remove it from their site. Preventing them from being able to do that is the government restricting twitters speech.
If you don't like how twitter moderates it's platform, you should have alternatives to go to that moderate differently. That's basically the whole premise of subreddits and, well, a "free and open market", rather than the government forcing companies to publish content it doesnt want on it's site.
Facebook has for the most part stayed out of it and they are being attacked for not providing a Ministry of Truth like Twitter does.
So the little bit of competition that Twitter has is being coerced to do the same.
If Twitter continues down the route it's going and continues to publish it's thoughts and link them to other's thoughts then I think they should have their 230 protections revoked and that will probably shutter them. Good.
Hacker News should be all about breaking up monopolies and regulating companies, what gives? Ah yeah, the elections.
Similar alternatives for those interested:
https://www.gab.com/
https://mastodon.social/
https://getaether.net/