S8E5—Does Twitter Survive 2023? A Birdseye View Of The “Public Square”

Device & Virtue

Who hasn’t heard about Twitter these days? With all the controversy, Adam & Chris are talking about how private tech becomes a “public square”—and does Twitter have a future in 2023?

Big Questions

• What is “free speech”?
• What is the idea of the public square and how does it relate?
• How has the long history of communications technology been controlled by the rich or the royal?
• Who owned the most powerful communications network in the middle ages?
• How should Christians speak and interact in the public square?
• Should Adam & Chris delete the Device & Virtue Twitter account?

Links

• A timeline of Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter (NBC)
• We’re witnessing the brain death of Twitter (MIT Technology Review)
• Beyond the Public Square: Imagining Digital Democracy by Mary Ann Franks (Yale Law Journal)

Dramatic Tweets

• https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518623997054918657?s=20&t=CVF4F0xrENuRCMb8-QztJg
• https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097?s=20&t=CVF4F0xrENuRCMb8-QztJg

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