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As I said in the Apple-Parler thread:

Massive Big Tech conglomerates must be busted through antitrust enforcement and Section 230 must be updated to ban predatory algorithms which have inflamed 7 years of sectarian chaos and violence.

It's not a free speech issue: It's about Too Big To Fail. They have too much power, beyond that of even the world's largest governments. This cannot stand.



In what sense is Twitter a "Massive Big Tech conglomerate"?

They're merely a successful platform.


What percentage of modern "news" articles use tweets as the primary source of research?

I'd guess the average "news" article today includes at least 1 tweet.

It's dumb, but Twitter has become where journalism happens.


How could you break up Twitter, what's your plan?


Half joking, but force them to federate their content to P2P networks like Mastodon?


What's to stop them from confederating afterwards?


Why joke? Thats a viable way to do it. No social network shoild be so large that massive global events can be shaped by it's executives.


They'll start with whoever they hate most and work their way on down. This is crazy.




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