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Are corporations allowed to limit free speech or not?
@realcaseyrollins Yes, in the current order (obviously) but ideally we should implement a standard by which once a platform reaches a certain level of either profit or widespread use, they should be treated as utilities.
@NAZl Ah yes. So when they become monopolies?
@realcaseyrollins No quite, cause we have Fedi, right? Technically Twitter isn't a monopoly, people *could* migrate here, no problem. But of course, it's not that simple. People are slow to change, there has to be a catalyst for migration.
So we can't use monopolization as the base standard for regulation.
@NAZl It's still a monopoly; monopolies don't need to have complete control of an industry, just a majority of it. I would say #Twitter's userbase utterly dwarfs the #Fediverse's
@realcaseyrollins Twitter has Facebook as a rival. Instagram has Snapchat. Youtube is the only outright monopoly I can think of. But this is really an argument of semantics. I think you understand my position.