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I Dream of the Post Office Buying Twitter | Drew Breunig

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Oct 7, 2016 I Dream of the Post Office Buying Twitter Does ‘Free Speech’ Include Distribution? Yes, it’s a goofy dream. Yes, Congress won’t let them stop Saturday delivery, let alone spend $30 billion on a wobbly and weird social network. Yes, this will never happen. Yes, $30 billion could buy 90 F-35s instead. But: I can’t get this idea out of my head. My mind stumbles on it every other commute. Every news item about Twitter’s sale spurs the notion. Google and Disney are walking away leaving only Salesforce, but oh: they just bought Krux . Maybe there won’t be a suitor. Their market cap is do

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