Despite all the "town square" rhetoric, they're much more like privatized food courts.
Each private platform's equivalent of mall security can & will remove you based on their whims. Or the mall owner's whims. Or possible impacts on profit.
(And actual public spaces do have similar problems, as anyone who's paid attention to the frequent consequences of protesting or just being Black in the presence of police forces knows. But there are at least more avenues for demanding accountability, due process, etc in actual public spaces.)
Despite all the "town square" rhetoric, they're much more like privatized food courts.
Each private platform's equivalent of mall security can & will remove you based on their whims. Or the mall owner's whims. Or possible impacts on profit.
(And actual public spaces do have similar problems, as anyone who's paid attention to the frequent consequences of protesting or just being Black in the presence of police forces knows. But there are at least more avenues for demanding...
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@jbaggs @dangoodin Right.
Despite all the "town square" rhetoric, they're much more like privatized food courts.
Each private platform's equivalent of mall security can & will remove you based on their whims. Or the mall owner's whims. Or possible impacts on profit.
(And actual public spaces do have similar problems, as anyone who's paid attention to the frequent consequences of protesting or just being Black in the presence of police forces knows. But there are at least more avenues for demanding accountability, due process, etc in actual public spaces.)
@jbaggs @dangoodin Right.
Despite all the "town square" rhetoric, they're much more like privatized food courts.
Each private platform's equivalent of mall security can & will remove you based on their whims. Or the mall owner's whims. Or possible impacts on profit.
(And actual public spaces do have similar problems, as anyone who's paid attention to the frequent consequences of protesting or just being Black in the presence of police forces knows. But there are at least more avenues for demanding...