[ExI] ok this explains it

[William Flynn Wallace]

 But Ari makes it sound like exposing that and stopping that is a bad
thing.  I don’t understand.  Can anyone explain please?



spike    What if a media company wanted to discriminate against some
political party?  It's a private company, so it's not illegal - true?
Making this transparent would be a terrible idea.  I can't see this coming
under equal time laws.  bill w

On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 1:43 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Ari Melber goes on about how Twitter doesn’t need to be transparent.  OK
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> So this commentator appears in the photo to be in full panic mode over how
> Twitter can influence elections because they don’t need to be transparent,
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> ja?  There are credible accusations that is has been done and is being done
> now.  But Ari makes it sound like exposing that and stopping that is a bad
> thing.  I don’t understand.  Can anyone explain please?
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