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One small silver lining to the Twitter debacle is that it's forcing people to think about the political economy of platforms. Calls for structural alternatives based on cooperative governance and public ownership are increasingly common.

Hopefully Twitter's collapse will lead to a more expansive conversation about the relationships between capitalist imperatives and the communication/information needs of democratic societies. Are they compatible? What are the alternatives?

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One small silver lining to the Twitter debacle is that it's forcing people to think about the political economy of platforms. Calls for structural alternatives based on cooperative governance and public ownership are increasingly common.

Hopefully Twitter's collapse will lead to a more expansive conversation about the relationships between capitalist imperatives and the communication/information needs of democratic societies. Are they compatible? What are the alternatives?