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David Slack Nov 4, 2022

The whole idea of the town square is that it belongs to the town. No one should be able to buy it. And honestly, they can’t.

Twitter isn’t really the town square, any more than Facebook is or MySpace was.

We are the town square. It goes where we go. No one can buy that.

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Eddie Clark

@slack2thefuture It's funny, the privatisation of the 'town square' in this way in physical space is something people have been worrying about for a while - shopping malls being the most obvious example. It's all fine until it's not. Which is the problem.