Weibo shadowbanned my screenshot of Trump's tweet that's shadowbanned by Twitter ...

we've got walls everywhere .. echo chamber inside the echo chamber, and walls inside walls

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It's a direct confrontation between the private sector and public sector in soft power. Tech giants controlling information channels become key nodes in public opinion forming

publicity is increasingly divergent and difficult to manipulate from politician's side 1/

Second, Trump’s rise to power has largely benefited from the penetration of Twitter/FB and his loud remarks, because of this, he is also concerned about these new media giants will weaken his influence in the same way. After all, the ocean can carry boat and also overturn it

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Last but not least

in the age when attention is hard currency, organizations that can farm users' attention may to some extent subvert the traditional political system, FB/Twitter's facilitation in recent political turmoils in the world is massive

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Young politicians such as AOC, Pete Buttigieg are all social media aces. Internet giants have won the battle of attention now politicians have to win attention for themselves in the playbook set by tech giants (simply changing the ranking algo may alter narrative/election

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It is not only economic consideration that the tech giants will be targeted for attack in traditional politics, but also the consideration of political control

at the end of the day, all politics are influence game and a rally on belief system, where tech makes it so effective