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A security concern for the governments, not twitter. It's not twitter's fault that governments are using it as a primary form of communication, nor should it be their responsibility to have amazing uptime just because governments are using their platform.

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It's a national security concern (and international?) if Twitter can be compromised by nefarious actors and/or brought down via said compromised access. The idea that this isn't worthy of whistleblowing because Twitter is a corporation is insane. There are countless examples in the last year of Twitter being used for communication during a crisis.

That's ridiculous. If I created a service and the government happened to start using it, my service being taken down should not be labeled a national security issue against me. The national security issue would be the government deciding to rely on my service.

For all the first amendment protectors out there - the government forcing a private company to comply with some mythical security / uptime standard so it can propagandise its population - that is an actual violation.

Ludicrous, but this is the situation... holy cow, imagine a future where TikTok likes, determine the outcome of an election.

You can watch it live in 2024, when all of social media has morphed into TikTok clones.

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