1/ I am uncertain how I feel about Twitter unevenly applying bans. They might have claimed nigh-utility status, but--
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2/ That's just a claim. There is neither mutually exclusionary infra (better term?) nor govt. mandated monopoly involved.
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3/ I looked for alternatives for a long time, and honestly people didn't bother making a better one for most of that time.
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4/ And they weren't even like Walmart which intentionally undercut local competitors in some zones! They didn't act monopolistically!
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@ClarkHat I'm not deeply bothered by this question but: unlike Wal-Mart Twitter runs at a continuous large loss.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
subsidized by shareholders, largest of which is a Saudi Prince, also, I think, backer of a presidential candidate.
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difference between commercial monopolistic behaviour vs dominating political discourse.
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though as an opponent of democracy it isn't really my fight.
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