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1) I've been mulling the intra-left debate over Twitter's Trump ban and the unaccountable power of private tech monopolies, and have some very tentative, inexpert thoughts that I find ideologically uncomfortable, and thus would gladly see rebutted:
2) I think tech platforms should be public utilities. I also think that, at a time when every arm of the federal state over-represents a far-right party, such that it will probably win full control of government if it loses the popular vote in 2024 by 2 points...
3)...it's not clear to me that a publicly managed/regulated Twitter would be less likely to censor leftwing speech, or to abet fascist propaganda, than one owned by a private entity that is dependent on the cooperation of a largely left-leaning labor force.
4) Which is to say: I think the first step to solving any of our polity's major problems is to democratize the state so as to disempower the authoritarian movement that now threatens every progressive project. Until reform or realignment is achieved, however...
5) I think we need to grapple with the possibility that the far-right now has more purchase over the public sector than it does over a globally-oriented tech sector that is reliant on workers who are generally hostile to the right, and potentially capable of workplace militancy
