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[โ€“] KryptOrchid@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (14 children)

I'd agree with compelling politicians to change platform only in the case you outline above, where said politician (assuming they are democratically elected) is unreachable through other means of communication. Else I think everyone is free to make their own decision as to what platform/soapbox they want to use, just as much as I have the right to not use that platform.

[โ€“] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 3 points 4 months ago (13 children)

People donโ€™t have a right to use Twitter -- b/c itโ€™s a private company that excludes people (e.g. people without mobile phones). Thatโ€™s the first problem.

I heard a rumor that (like Facebook) Twitter was closing read access so only members could /read/ posts. Did that ever happen? Maybe not, because I was just able to reach a twitter timeline without having Twitter creds as a test. If that exclusivity plays out, then politicians will be writing messages that a segment of people are excluded from viewing. It would not be enough that they can be reached by other means. Politicians would also have to copy all of their messages to an accessible space somewhere.

Itโ€™s also insufficient that I can reach them outside twitter only by non-microblogging means. E.g. by letter. A letter is a private signal not seen by others. Microblogging is an open letter mechanism. Itโ€™s important to deliver your msg to a polician in a way that the msg has an audience. Take away the audience and you take away the power of the signal.

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.nl 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Twitter was closing read access so only members could /read/ posts.

It is indeed the case

[โ€“] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I tested by accessing ACLUโ€™s timeline anonymously without an account. Is it different for different accounts?

(edit) just tested trying to access the acct of someone arbitrary.. a broken login popup attempted to render. So I guess different accts are different.

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago

I never really understood how it's managed. I guess Twitter allows you to see a tiny bit of content but then login walls you when you try to navigate

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