Moral basis for regulating social platforms
Many people seem to be stuck between two opposing thoughts: 1. It feels wrong that social platforms have the power to arbitrary filter content. 2. They are private companies, so they have the right to do as they please. How do we reconcile those ideas? Let's look at two entrepreneurs...
Jan 23, 20210
Telephone providers are neutral - they don't disconnect clients because they don't like what people are talking about with each other. If they did, we'd have the same kind of outrage.
alt-Twitter aps are sort of possible, TweetDeck is one example (they eventually bought it).
But such aps don't solve the main problem: if Twitter decides to kick somebody out, you won't see his tweets in other apps as well.