This is an empirical question that people are baselessly speculating about from the armchair, when we’ve know the answer for years. Even the neoliberals over at The Economist think it’s a good idea.

Ban surveillance advertising and help speed the demise of the site, or mandate interop and make it easy for those still on it to take their followers with them, but holy fuck bro—calling for a government to ban a communications platform for an entire continent?

You mean Brewster Kahle? Maybe a little?

In fact anonymous review is an important part of the scientific method, precisely because work shouldn’t be judged by its source

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