Twitter Steps Down From the Free Speech Party
It's funny how a lot of people (especially those of the anti-capitalist / left'ish wing ilk) cite cyberpunk literature in which corporations achieve a level of power approaching - or exceeding - that of Nation States... and decry that hypothetical scenario as a horrible and undesirable thing.<p>But in this case, what we see is a situation where we'd <i>like</i> to see Twitter stand up to various world governments... perhaps even the US government.  But we all know that, in the end, there's a limit to how much they can contest the will of the government because the governments are the ones with "men with guns".<p>Maybe companies / corporations with enough power to <i>actually</i> challenge the governments of the world isn't such a bad thing after all.  Or, perhaps it would be better to say "maybe corporations with enough power to challenge the governments of the world" is, at least, <i>not</i> a universally <i>bad</i> thing.