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Trump wants to sell early access to his social media posts (www.npr.org)
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Of course what this means is people who are not in Trump’s exclusive fiefdom will be excuded from access, at least for a period of time.

It’s being challenged as unconstitutional. But I think more basically it’s a violation of human rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

Article 21

  1. Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
  2. Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.

Trump’s “early access” program is inherently partaking in governance as it is communication between reps and those they represent. Knowing what is going on inside that nutjob’s brain is part of the democracy equation -- as precursor to protesting his next stupid idea. Yet in this case it would be exclusively available to paying subscribers, not everyone as required by art.21.

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[-] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

Article 21

Using private platforms that require users to sign up and agree to terms of use already violate that, but nobody seems to care, as many governments around the world continue using twitter for official communication.

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This community collects stories, cases and situations where people are forced into a walled-garden to carry out a public transaction or essential task of some kind. As governments impose a digital transformation policy with no analog refuge, people are forced into becoming serfs in a technofeudal system that is subservient to lords (Microsoft, Cloudflare, Google, etc).

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¹It’s somewhat unlikely that a gov would impose Github, but it is listed as an example because some govs do have git services. E.g. the EU has a public-facing self-hosted git instance.

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