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Newspapers are still often required to be used for certain government publications and they cost money. TwitterX is free. I'm not clear what the controversy h
by fearmerchant 24d ago
Newspapers are still often required to be used for certain government publications and they cost money. TwitterX is free. I'm not clear what the controversy here is exactly.
- etdznots 24d agoIt is not free? You just pay them with your private information and by looking at a few ads. That is not free. Unless you believe information and time have no value?
- alsetmusic 24d agoNewspapers aren't free either. But Twitter, I mean that crappy one-letter site purchased by a chud, is still garbage. I'm definitely not defending it.
- culi 24d agoYou need to make an account to access it. That's not free
- AlexandrB 24d agoWorse, you can be banned for reasons unrelated to your local laws and lose access.
- fearmerchant 24d agoI have an account and I paid zero for it. Are we talking about the same thing?
- BLKNSLVR 24d agoYou've paid with a certain amount of personal information. But to be fair, that's the same with a newspaper subscription.
- ShinyLeftPad 24d agoYou can't buy a newspaper at a kiosk for cash?
- BLKNSLVR 24d agoGood point. I think you can probably also read it for free at a library, or at work (on their paid sub however). Lots of options, true.
- fearmerchant 23d agoYou're assuming I used my own information. It's the internet. You can lie.
- Barrin92 24d ago>I'm not clear what the controversy here is exactly. Seems pretty obvious, not every citizen has access to twitter, there's no legitimate chain of trust and there's endless potential for corruption and manipulation. In pretty much every developed country sans the US apparently governments, even local ones, tend to be obligated to publish information through their own channels because 1. they own them so you know communication is authentic, 2. they can't ban or restrict you from accessing it, they know how that information is made available, there's no financial conflict of interest. It's completely possible for Twitter, given that the government has no insight into its technical operations, exert influence on who sees what and how. That alone is insane for public, government communication. If the government isn't sovereign in respect to its communications infrastructure your government is run by tech oligarchs
- Tepix 24d agoExactly. It‘s isn‘t just possible, we know it‘s happening.