Companies get sold to larger ones all the time. This is not a new thing and no big deal. If I had a company and maybe got bored with it or it wasn´t doing so well anymore and then got a really great offer for it, I´d sell too. So what? I go home rich.
As for parler getting shut down, who cares? I recently read an article where it was mentioned and that place is financed, run by and frequented by right wing extremists, racisists and even modern day Nazis. Is it really such a great loss? not in my opinion.
Twitter is a private company and as such they have the right to ask people to behave in a decent manner and if they don´t they can `punish´ them by say cancelling their accounts. I think that´s perfectly reasonable because it´s their company and they make the rules and rules do tend to get changed over time.
Like I said these platforms have agreed to do a better job at monitoring things like mobbing, hate speech etc in recent years. True it was due to pressure from some governments including the british one, but is that a bad thing? it´s nothing to do with `the right to free speech´, imo.
If someone is being abusive they get just kicked out and censored.
If some guy or woman acted that shit repeatedly they end up being barred from the local pub too. Why should the internet be any different?
The internet has been used and abused by people with bad attitudes for way too long. It´s high time people learn you can´t get away with everything and cracking down on them is long overdue.
I totally agree with politicans (not ) using twitter or facebook first to announce policies. I want to hear that stuff when watching the news!
I felt like I was forced to use Twitter to stay current.
Good post(s).