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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.

I want to believe that but If this was really true, one uberwealthy person wouldn’t be able to buy the town square, wreak havoc on it and destroy it in fine form within days according to their whim. Musk has the power to restructure every algorithm and line of code according to his liking not the public’s. He can literally flip and switch and turn out the lights on the livelihoods members have built there over the years. What a mess. #TwitterTakeover

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Erin Schnabel

@AspiringOne @slack2thefuture Same could be said for facebook or Instagram or Snapchat or ... none of those are permanent things, though we have poured our collective souls into them over the past few years (and really, in the scheme of things, it hasn't been that many years.. )