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> which is increasingly the main way to communicate.

It’s not. Twitter is a publishing medium. Let’s be real about that.

It's not just a publishing medium. You can use it privately as well. Social media is blurring those lines. People broadcast their messages daily to their own audience, whether it's family, group of friends, or the world. Eventually voice calls will just be another feature, and I guess providers will make a deal with the various apps like discord, whatsapp, etc., at that point these companies are effectively deciding what information people can consume.

> You can use it privately as well.

Yeah yeah. But that doesn’t mean it’s not a publishing platform. If you don’t think Twitter is about public conversation then you take a look at it for yourself some time.

Even if it is publishing, companies align in intent and wield incredible amounts of power with how information flows. They decide what is a legitimate story, and what is a conspiracy theory, and I personally don't trust large corporations to make these decisions. They are far from moral actors. Twitter is attempting to strip this power away from itself, and Apple does not like that.

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