Especially when it is a public square. Lots of officials and government agencies to your local fire department uses Twitter to communicate to public exclusively.
Unacceptable and despicable. It has unbelievable to me that we are using a for-profit platform for communication between governments and the public they serve.
> Lots of officials and government agencies to your local fire department uses Twitter to communicate to public exclusively.
Speak to policy makers directly and demand they publish directly into publicly owned infrastructure.
we live in a world where the interoperable social web exists. Gov bodies could shoehorn those protocols into their content management systems and bypass commercial social media directly. no ponzi blockchain necessary either.
No one voted for our governments to exclusively use it to communicate on Twitter. It kinda just organically happened. Even Iranian officials use Twitter.
We had government websites and official channels, but hard and inaccessible.
I think the problem I have is the need for phone numbers and identification to access government comms through Twitter. No one asked who I am to listen to radio (even though some were commercial for-profit ventures).
I’d like to see GSA offer a US gov official Twitter of sorts for instant communication. No ID or Phone required, funded by tax payers.
Unacceptable and despicable. It has unbelievable to me that we are using a for-profit platform for communication between governments and the public they serve.
Fuck Twitter.