How come Quillette hasn’t stepped into the breach by standing up a Parler-lite 
It’s like this is a heaven-sent opportunity for them to level up a tier
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Nobody is actually defending the stated line of concern and building a pure paradigm free-speech platform. And there’s enough billionaires pretending to defend that line that they could even set up a CDN network and a data center.
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I don’t care to convince anyone of my own position on these matters, but I do care about vague suggestions of monopoly and “de facto public square” crap. That’s just not true and I don’t want it being accepted as such. Twitter is *a* public square, not *the* public square.
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This is what is known in the business as a high-maintenance audience. A crowd it’s costly to serve a self-speaking platform to, but doesn’t fit the “speak for the voiceless” pattern either.
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Possibly true, but a) there are/have been many brilliant techies who are/would have been Trumpies (Shockley, Metcalfe,... Palmer Luckey probably counts too) b) there are many who probably can’t fix their own tech problems (artists etc) who I do want to hear fromhttps://twitter.com/the_aiju/status/1348048061755498507 …
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It’s not that they can’t do what’s necessary. It’s that they know they’ll never be the majority, and they want recognition of their preferred rules of engagement on the majority platform. They don’t want to admit they’re merely disliked by a majority without being oppressed.
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So their options are to either get autocratic imposition of their preferred rules (say whatever, whenever, to whoever, without consequences) or hide disingenuously behind pretended belief in lofty principles they argue should be installed above an imagined tyranny of the majority
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It also happened on Facebook and a whole range of other sites and servers, all in a concerted operation that does act as the public square. It's not just Twitter. New one might grow but this part of the media landscape did just get thrown off the currently existing public square
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I’d even dispute its designation as a “public square”.https://twitter.com/navertal/status/1347830831486693379?s=21 …
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