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@apowe003 https://t.co/ab5wItLpO2 — PolitiTweet.org

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@MickE03632154 https://t.co/ab5wItLpO2 — PolitiTweet.org

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Just take the simplest possible case: spam. No one likes it! But private companies are able to filter unsolicited commercial mail in ways the Postal Service cannot, because the USPS is bound by the First Amendment. Does filtering spam come under the “principles of free speech”? — PolitiTweet.org

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Elon about to learn that content moderation at scale is a harder problem than launching rockets and landing them again. One of those two things is impossible. https://t.co/xxmrX4tf1f — PolitiTweet.org

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@bubbaprog My local CBS broadcasts in 720p because it has so many subchannels! Just insanity — PolitiTweet.org

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@jamms It’s all of it — PolitiTweet.org

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To make this work I’d need Twitter to add a “sync the timeline with your TV delay” feature but cmon they should have done that ages ago — PolitiTweet.org

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Look, here’s a free idea: I’d *pay* to watch live events on a *delay* if it guaranteed a high bitrate stream in perfect 4K HDR so live sports and music looked amazing. Money! I’d pay more of it for a higher quality experience! What an idea for the TV industry! — PolitiTweet.org

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@2Hands5Strings Hahahah to be fair compression is way harder with live video - what’s the middle if you don’t know where the end is? — PolitiTweet.org

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@_danvideo Ha it’s worse than that - they still deliver in ATSC which dates to the 90s. — PolitiTweet.org

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“The most obvious value of our product is live cultural moments, let’s make sure everything looks like crap in those moments most of all” — PolitiTweet.org

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The TV industry has spent millions on consultants to save itself from cord cutting and yet no one has added “update the compression so our product doesn’t look like garbage during live music performances that everyone is watching” to the list of ideas — PolitiTweet.org

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@rachelsklar I think the art piece and the “communities who don’t traditionally get to create asset-based value” piece are both really interesting - but I keep thinking about why this tech is seen as the enabler when there’s no real connection, and the obvious downsides — PolitiTweet.org

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@rachelsklar Real question: why is the specific technology of NFTs required to make the argument that artists can create more art with generative tools than oil paints? — PolitiTweet.org

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@apowe003 I think you will find that passing legislation that explicitly targets a single actor because of their speech triggers many first amendment concerns — PolitiTweet.org

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@deadheadtyler There’s no dissonance, there is a pure political calculation in service of power — PolitiTweet.org

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The current GOP reading of the First Amendment is that private citizens and companies should be held to the same standard as the government but the government should be free to regulate and retaliate for speech at will — PolitiTweet.org

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Using the power of the state to punish political speech violates which amendment, I can’t remember — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @carlquintanilla: Omg B of A has a chart of the number of times “congrats,” “congratulations,” or some close variation was uttered on ea… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @andyjayhawk: i’ll always remember this as the time when @sokane1 got the maddest I’ve ever seen — PolitiTweet.org

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@SamStrongTalks Right and I am predicting they will completely fail. Quote me on it — PolitiTweet.org

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@JasonHirschhorn “Diversity is good business” is actually the clearest market signal in media imo. Funny to cut so hard against that — PolitiTweet.org

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@JasonHirschhorn Oh I’m sure they will notch many earned media wins, but any media business that starts out with “what if we explicitly limited our market to children with assholes for parents” is going to have a tough time sustaining itself — PolitiTweet.org

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Also 1. lol they don’t have $100m, why take that at face value and 2. going after Disney with $30m a year for three years is like throwing a pillow at Godzilla, anyone giving them that money is a dummy — PolitiTweet.org

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The rare pre-launch 90 on the go90 Scale of Doomed Streaming Services https://t.co/3OuFYO6Nw7 — PolitiTweet.org

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@FakeAcc60810634 Works great, she loves it. And Citrix was eventually updated and that worked perfectly too — PolitiTweet.org

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Life comes at you fast cc @TaylorLorenz @CaseyNewton @alexeheath https://t.co/57yuppQBJ5 https://t.co/ZobSlma0yH https://t.co/lUSfi5do7c https://t.co/LeaVgCNgAW — PolitiTweet.org

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Big scoop from Alex here -> — PolitiTweet.org

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@Mike_Wuerthele I think rent extraction is actually quite bad. You are free to be a corporate nihilist, though — PolitiTweet.org

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@Mike_Wuerthele Great. What commerce should Apple not insert itself into? — PolitiTweet.org