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Credible exit - by Gordon Brander - Subconscious

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Fueling our cope and seethe is the fact that the structure of Twitter is fundamentally feudal. This town square is owned and controlled by a single company, now perhaps by a single person. There is lofty talk about democracy and free speech but there are no mechanisms for self-governance, no procedures for holding power to account, no checks and balances, no due process, no bill of rights. This is a battle for the Iron Throne. Who sits on the throne makes the rules. Pray for a benevolent despot. But does it have to be this way? What if you weren’t locked in? What if Twitter offered credible exit? What might credible exit look like? In what ways might we enable it? I’ve been developing rough notes on credible exit ever since I saw this exchange on Twitter. My thinking in this post is in-process, but I figured now is a good time to get something down on paper. I like “credible exit” as a framing because it has clear value. Credible exit is also practical. There are examples of credible e

Well, it looks like Elon Musk is buying Twitter. Pandemonium! Fueling our cope and seethe is the fact that the structure of Twitter is fundamentally feudal. This town square is owned and controlled by a single company, now perhaps by a single person. There is lofty talk about democracy and free speech but there are no mechanisms for self-governance, no procedures for holding power to account, no checks and balances, no due process, no bill of rights. This is a battle for the Iron Throne. Who sits on the throne makes the rules. Pray for a benevolent despot. But does it have to be this way?…

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